Nechama Tec

b. 1931

Born in Lublin, Poland, Nechama Tec moved to Israel after World War II, and then immigrated to the United States. A noted scholar of the Holocaust, Tec has been a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. The film Defiance (2008) is based upon her book of the same title.

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Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood

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Stanislaw often told me how much he liked my company, and sometimes he wondered about my Jewishness: “Look at yourself! You cannot be Jewish!” he would exclaim. And yet whenever he spoke to me about…