Emanuel Tanay (March 5, 1928 – August 5, 2014) was a Polish-American physician, a forensic psychiatrist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
Early life
Tanay was born in Wilno, Poland on March 5, 1928, but the family soon moved to Miechów, a small community just north of Kraków.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] He immigrated to the United States after World War II. He did his psychiatric residency at Elgin State Hospital in Elgin, Illinois.
^[1] Emanuel Tanay - March 16, 1987, Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive.
^"The Religious roots of the Holocaust," Emannuel Tanay, in Holocaust scholars write to the Vatican," Harry J. Cargas, ed., Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998, pp. 85. ff.
