Name Emanuel Tanay | Books The murderers | |
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Died August 5, 2014, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States | ||
Dr emanuel tanay interview with holocaust survivor expert on genocide author of passport to life
Emanuel Tanay (1928 – August 5, 2014) was an American physician, a forensic psychiatrist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
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- Dr emanuel tanay interview with holocaust survivor expert on genocide author of passport to life
- Nations are silenced because they stay silent by dr emanuel tanay
- Early life
- Career
- Death
- Books
- Hoax
- References
Nations are silenced because they stay silent by dr emanuel tanay
Early life
Tanay was born in Vilna but the family soon moved to Miechow, a small community just south of Kraków. His mother, Betty Tenenwurzel, was both a physician and dentist and his father, Bunim Tenenwurzel, was a dentist. He survived by being hidden in the Catholic monastery of Mogila in Kraków, Poland.
In 1943 Tanay escaped from occupied Poland with his mother and sister to Slovakia and then Hungary. They were liberated in January 1945 in Budapest. He immigrated to the United States after World War II. He did his psychiatric residency at Elgin State Hospital in Elgin, Illinois.
Career
Tanay was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Wayne State University Medical School in Detroit, Michigan.
Death
Tanay died on August 5, 2015, following a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was 86.
Books
Hoax
A fictional report "A German's View on Islam" falsely attributed to Dr. Tanay is often quoted in relation to Islamist terrorism.