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Feig, Werner M., 1932-1997

 Person

Biography

Werner Feig taught Middle and Upper School history at Nightingale from 1991 to 1997. Additional roles included Head of the History department 1991-1995, advisor to CAFE and Model Congress, and Upper School advisor 1991-1997.

Mr Feig was born in Breslau, Germany in 1932. He moved to Hongkew, a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai, China to escape the Holocaust. He later settled in Pittsburgh, where he attended high school and college. He further earned an MAT at Harvard University in 1959 and an MA in political science in 1965 from the University of Chicago. He taught history at Scarsdale High School prior to Nightingale.

The Werner Feig Holocaust Memorial Lecture was established in [___] in his honor. It is sponsored by the family of Julie Kenner Case '94.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

History department assignment sheets, samples of student work, course outlines, review sheets, 1996

 File — Box: 10023
Identifier: B10023_F07
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Special Collections encompasses materials relevant to Nightingale, its history, people, and/or mission, but were not created in the ordinary course of Nightingale's business or were donated items significant enough to constitute their own collection. These records do not generally fall into the other record groups' scope.

Dates: 1996

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