Mrs. Bona Schwarz Fabian, active in Jewish wartime relief work, a Hungarian exile leader during the Second World War, died here yesterday Gha was the wife of Dr. Bela Fabian, chairman of the Hungarian Former Political Hrisoners.
Born in Budapest, she married Dr. Fabian in 1924 in a ceremony which her husband said was also a demonstration against anti-Semitic rightists when an overflow crowd packed Budapest’s Dohany Temple which has a capacity of 20, 000. At the outset of the Second World War, Mrs. Fabian worked as president of the women’s section of the Hungarian Jewish War Veterans to supply Jewish forced laborer with nothing and necessities.Mrs. Fabian came to the United States in 1948 and was one of the leaders of the Hungarian freedom movement.
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