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3/14/2006
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR DR. NECHAMA TEC TO ADDRESS
SRU COMMUNITY AT REMEMBRANCE
SLIPPERY
ROCK, Pa. – “Jewish Resistance: Women, Men
and the Holocaust,” will be the theme when Slippery Rock
University presents its annual Holocaust Remembrance Program
featuring Holocaust survivor Dr. Nechama Tec, professor emeritus at
the University of Connecticut, Stamford, at 4 p.m. March
29
The free
program, organized by Dr. Richard T. Martin, professor of political
science, will be offered in SRU’s Miller
Auditorium.
Tec, born in
Lubin, Poland, in 1931, has written seven books, including
“Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the
Holocaust,” which won the 2002-2003 National Jewish Book
Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; “Dry Tears: The
Story of a Lost Childhood,” a memoir of her survival in
Poland; and “When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian
Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland.”
Her
other books include “In The Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald
Rufeise” and “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans,”
which presents the story of Tuvia Bielski, a Belorussian Jew who
organized a band of partisans that helped save more than 1,200
lives. She has published some 60 scholarly articles and is working
on a book with Dr. Christopher Browning, SRU’s Holocaust
program speaker in 2003.
Tec earned
her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in sociology at
Columbia University and holds an honorary doctor of humane letters
from Seton Hall University. A member of the Council of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Academic Advisory
Committee at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tec was a scholar-in-residence at the
International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashen in
1995. She frequently lectures at national and international
forums.
Tec was born
to Roman Bawnik, a businessman, and Esther (Hachamoff) Bawnik, and
for three years during World War II lived an assumed Christian
identity. With the aid of Catholic Poles, her sister and parents
survived the war by hiding in homes evading Nazi detection. After
the war, she married Leon Tec, a child psychiatrist in 1950 and the
couple immigrated to the U.S. in 1952, where they had two
children.
A professor
of sociology at the University of Connecticut at Stamford since
1974, Tec is a member of the advisory board of the Braun Center for
Holocaust Studies of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith and its International Advisory Board of Directors of
the Foundation to Sustain Righteous Christians.
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