# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nechama-tec
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:43:16.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nechama-tec"
name: "Nechama Tec"
slug: "nechama-tec"
description: "Nechama Tec was a Polish-American historian who was professor emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. 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. 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 the 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."
tagline: "Polish historian (1931–2023)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-05-15"
deathDate: "2023-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.785903599605523
  historical:           11.15464533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2739958/"
    handle:    "nm2739958"
sources:
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    title: "Nechama Tec"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechama_Tec"
    title: "Nechama Tec"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechama_Tec"
    title: "Nechama Tec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechama_Tec"
    title: "Nechama Tec"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechama_Tec"
    title: "Nechama Tec"
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    title: "Nechama Tec"
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    title: "Nechama Tec"
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    title: "Нечама Тек"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump