Tec, Nechama
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- LCN; note: 1931-; Nechama Bawnik Tec
- Her Gambling in Sweden, 1964
- Her Dry tears, c1982:CIP t.p. (Nechama Tec) data sheet (b. 1931) galley (b. in Poland, now lives in Conn. & teaches at the Univ. of Conn.)
- Her Dry tears, 1984:t.p. (Nechama Tec) p. 4 of cover (Nechama Bawnik Tec)
- Be-gov ha-arayot, 2000:t.p. (Neḥamah Ṭeḳ) t.p. verso (Nechama Tec [in rom.])
- Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Dec. 8, 2005(Nechama Tec; b. May 15, 1931, Lublin, Poland; came to U.S., 1952; Columbia University, Ph. D., 1963; University of Connecticut, Stamford, professor of sociology, 1987- )
- Nechama Tec (née Bawnik) (born 15 May 1931) is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell, and is a Holocaust scholar. he was born in Lublin, Poland to a family of Polish Jews in 1931 and was 8 years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. She survived the Holocaust thanks to her life being saved by Polish Catholics. After the war she immigrated to Israel and later moved to the United States, where she earned a doctorate at Columbia University. ( (Wikipedia, 13 November 2015) )
- Washington post WWW site, viewed August 18, 2023(in obituary dated August 16, 2023: Nechama Tec; wrote a memoir, "Dry Tears" (1982), recounting her experience as a young Jewish girl in German-occupied Poland. Dr. Tec, who died Aug. 3 at 92, spent the rest of her academic career exploring issues of resilience, courage and compassion, emerging as a leading scholar of the Holocaust. Dr. Tec was born Nechama Bawnik in Lublin, Poland, on May 15, 1931. Dr. Tec's death, at home in Manhattan, was confirmed by her son)
- The Author's משפחת אנשי היער, תשנ"ז.
Wikipedia description:
Nechama Tec (née Bawnik, 15 May 1931 – 3 August 2023) was a Polish-American historian who was professor emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, where she studied and worked with the sociologist Daniel Bell, and was a Holocaust scholar. Her book When Light Pierced the Darkness (1986) and her memoir Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood (1984) both received the Merit of Distinction Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. She is also the author of the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans on which the film Defiance (2008) is based, as well as a study of women in the Holocaust. She was awarded the 1994 International Anne Frank Special Recognition prize for it.
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