Erika Fabian is no stranger to Williamsburg or to the campus of William & Mary.

She lectured in the class of professor Henry Hart on the history of the Second World War, gave a talk to a packed house at the Reves Center for International Studies on how she survived the Holocaust as a child and gave a presentation at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art on “How to Photograph the National Geographic Way.”

She was born in Budapest, Hungary. She survived the Holocaust only because her mother was able to secure false Christian identity papers, and they went into hiding.

Her father died in a Nazi concentration camp. After the war, Erika, her mother, Piry, and sister Judith, lived in communist Hungary. In 1953 they made an attempt to escape communist oppression by crossing the border betw

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