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Polish-American historian (–)

Nechama Tec (née Bawnik, 15 May – 3 August ) was a Polish-American historian who was Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.^[1] 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.

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Her book When Light Pierced the Darkness () and her memoir Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood () 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 () is based, as well as a study of women in the Holocaust.

She was awarded the International Anne Frank Special Recognition prize for it.^[2]

Biography

Nechama Tec was born in Lublin, Poland to a family of Polish Jews in ^[3] and was 8 years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in ^[4] She survived th