Frances Fabri
Sárika Frances Fabri (birth name: Sárika Frances Ladányi, born September 22, 1929 in Békés , Hungary, † January 9, 2006 in San Francisco ) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivor and American historian.
Life
When the Eichmann Command and its Hungarian helpers deported the Jews from Hungary to the concentration camps in 1944, Sárika Ladányi's family ended up in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Only she and her mother survived and returned to Békés after their liberation. Ladányi married the Hungarian Emery Fabri. After the failure of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 , they fled to the United States. She continued her aborted studies there and graduated in history and literature from Hofstra University in New York State . She moved to San Francisco around 1972. There she began, together with student helpers from San Francisco State University , to interview Holocaust survivors using a standardized procedure she had developed. Fifty of the questionnaires and the evaluations they carried out are today in the Holocaust Center of Northern California initiated by Fabri . Some of her own lyrics were published posthumously under the title Crickets Would Sing .
Fabri Literature Prize
In 2006, Matthew McKay founded the Fabri Literary Prize in memory of Frances Fabri , the first of which went to David Fuller Cook, Eli Brown and Chris Huntington. In 2011, Amy Wachspress was the first to sponsor an author who, like Fabri, works in memory of the Holocaust.
Fonts
- Crickets would sing , short fiction, memoir, Harrisburg, PA: Plum Branch Press, 2007
Web links
- Auschwitz survivor Frances Fabri dies at 76 at: Jewish Weekly, January 20, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fabri Literary Prize see also: Wikipedia en: Fabri Literary Prize
- ↑ Amy Wachspress: Legacy of Holocaust Survivor Frances Fabri: The Fabri Literary Prize , April 19, 2012
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| SURNAME | Fabri, Frances |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ladányi, Sárika Frances (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-American historian of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Békés , Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2006 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |