Miri Fabian

Miri Fabian (; born 30 August 1943 in Nováky, Slovak Republic) is an Israeli actress. She may be best known for her role as Chaja Dresner in Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List.

Life Miri Fabian was born 1943 during World War II in a camp for Slovak Jews in Nováky. Together with her mother and two siblings she barely escaped the last transport to the Auschwitz concentration camp. She started her career in the theatre. Later she was also acting in various Israeli film and TV productions. In 1993 Fabian was cast for the role of Chaja Dresner in Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. She struggled to complete the distressing scene in which a number of Schindler Jews are forced into a room that appears to be a gas chamber. During production breaks she visited her birthplace Nováky and Topoľčany for the first time in 50 years.

Selected filmography 1980: The Thin Line (על חבל דק) 1983: A Married Couple (זוג נשוי) 1984: Forced Testimony (עדות מאונס) 1990: Where Eagles Fly (דרך הנשר) 1993: Schindler's List 1993: Overdose מנת יתר 1996: The Italians Are Coming (האיטלקים באים) 1998: Gentila (ז'נטילה) 2007: Jellyfish (מדוזות) 2011: Policeman (השוטר)