Ida Fink

Ida Fink (1921-) is a Polish Jewish author who writes about the Holocaust.

Biography

Ida Fink was born in Zbaraz, Poland. in 1921. She was a student of music at Lwow Conservatory. In 1941-1942, she spent two years in the Zbaraz ghetto, before escaping with the help of Aryan papers. After the Holocaust she married and had a daughter. In 1957, Fink immigrated to Israel. [ [http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_fink_ida Polish culture: Ida Fink ] ] She settled in Holon, where she worked as a music librarian and an interviewer for Yad Vashem. She published her first story in 1971. Today, she lives with her sister in Ramat Aviv. [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/958002.html Israel Prize for Literature awarded to Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky - Haaretz - Israel News ] ]

Literary career

Fink writes in Polish, primarily on Holocaust themes. Her stories revolve around the terrible choices that the Jews had to make during the Nazi era and the hardships of Holocaust survivors after the war. [ [http://yad-vashem.org.il/education/newsletter/english/fourth/lesson_plan.htm Education - Lesson Plan from Teaching the Legacy, E-newsletter ] ]

A documentary about Ida Fink, "The Garden that Floated Away," was produced by Israeli filmmaker Ruth Walk. [ [http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=290 The Jewish Quarterly ] ]

Awards

Ida Fink won the Anne Frank Prize, the Buchman Prize and the Sapir Prize. In 2008, she was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature. [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/958002.html Israel Prize for Literature awarded to Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky - Haaretz - Israel News ] ]

Published work

* A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1987)cite web|url=http://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?BookId=4638|title=A scrap of time and other stories|work=BiblioVault|author=The University of Chicago Press|year=2001 - 2007|accessdate=2007-02-08]
* The Journey (1990)
* Traces (1996)

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