Emanuel Tanay
Emanuel Tanay 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. 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.