Feig, Werner M., 1932-1997

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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.

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Documentary film, "Defiant Requiem," written and directed by Doug Shultz, 2013, 2016

Item — Box: 01118

Identifier: B01118_F35

Scope and Contents From https://www.defiantrequiem.org/film/description/ (accessed Feb. 28, 2022):Defiant Requiem, a feature-length documentary film, highlights the most dramatic example of intellectual and artistic courage in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during World War II: the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant, young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He demonstrated moral leadership under the most brutal circumstances, determined to...

Dates: 2013; Event: 2016

Found in: The Nightingale-Bamford School Archives / RG01, RG01 Academics Record Group / SG001 Academics Records / S03 Academic Department-Sponsored Lectures / SS02 Werner Feig Holocaust Memorial Lecture

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