Frances Fabri

Sarika Frances Fabri (birth name: Sarika Ladányi Frances, born September 22, 1929 in Békés, Hungary, † January 9, 2006 in San Francisco) was a Hungarian Holocaust survivors and American historian.

Life

In 1944, the Eichmann command and its Hungarian workers deported the Jews from Hungary to the concentration camps, Sarika Ladányis got family in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Only she and her mother survived and returned to their liberation by Békés. Ladányi married Hungary Emery Fabri. After the failure of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, they fled to the United States. Your Comprehensive school, she continued there and graduated in History and Literature at Hofstra University in New York State. To 1972, she moved to San Francisco. There she began together with student volunteers from the San Francisco State University to interview survivors of the Holocaust with a developed her standardized procedure. Fifty of the questionnaire and the use made of it today are in initiated by Fabri Holocaust Center of Northern California. A part of their own texts was published posthumously under the title Crickets Would Sing.

Fabri Literary Prize

In memory of Frances Fabri was founded in 2006 by Matthew McKay of the Fabri Literary Prize, went its first awards to David Fuller Cook, Eli Brown and Chris Huntington. With Amy Wachspress also an author in 2011 for the first time promoted as the Fabri works in Holocaust remembrance.

Writings

• Crickets would sing, short fiction, memoir, Harrisburg, PA: Plum Branch Press, 2007