By Nechama Tec Defiance

by Nechama Tec

Paperback

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

Nechama Tec (née Bawnik) (born 15 May 1931) is a 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 is 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 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.[2]

Reviews

[Peter Amidon · Rating 4 out of 5]

A compelling, true story of a large group of Jews who survive WWII in the forests of Poland.

[Steve Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unbelievable ..