Emanuel Tanay

Emanuel Tanay (b. 1928) is an American physician, a forensic psychiatrist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

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Early life

Tanay was born in Vilna but the family soon moved to Miechow, a small community just south 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 Krakow, Poland.[2]

In 1943 Tanay escaped from occupied Poland with his mother and sister to Slovakia and from there to 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.

Career

Tanay is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Wayne State University Medical School in Detroit, Michigan.[4]

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References

  1. ^ [1] Emanuel Tanay - March 16, 1987, Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Tanay, Emanuel. "A man without a country". http://www.drtanay.com/article1.html. Retrieved 2010-08-13. 
  4. ^ [2] Virginia Tech Mass Murder: A Forensic Psychiatrist's Perspective, Emanuel Tanay, MD, J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 35:2:152-153 (2007).