Frances Fabri ( Sárika Ladányi; 22 September 1929 – 9 January 2006), was a Hungarian-born author and

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survivor. She was born in

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Life

At the age of fourteen, she was deported to

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with her family. Only Fabri and her mother survived. After their liberation they returned to their hometown. They left in 1956, and moved to

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, where Fabri graduated from

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in history and literature. She married Emery Fabri in Hungary, but the couple later divorced. She moved to

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in about 1972. With the help of college students she started interviewing Holocaust survivors, which she collected in a book called ''Crickets Would Sing''. After her death in January 2006 in

, Dr. Matthew McKay established the ''Fabri Literary Prize'' in her honor.

Sources

The Fabri Literary Prize
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New Harbinger Publications: Frances Fabri
1929 births 2006 deaths Hofstra University alumni Hungarian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Hungarian writers {{Hungary-writer-stub