Nechama Tec is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut-Stamford and a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and its Academic Committee. In 1997, Professor Tec was Senior Research Fellow of the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A child survivor of the Holocaust in Poland, she is author of Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood (1984) and When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland (1986), both awarded the Merit of Distinction Award from the Anti-Defamation League; In the Lion’s Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen (1990), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans (1993), recipient of the International Anne Frank Special Recognition Prize in Switzerland (1994) and the First Prize for Holocaust Literature by the World Federation of Fighters, Partisans, and Concentration Camp Survivors in Israel (1995). Her most recent book is Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust (2003).
