Ida Fink

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

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[edit] 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.[1] 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.[2]

[edit] 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.[3]

A documentary about Ida Fink, "The Garden that Floated Away," was produced by Israeli filmmaker Ruth Walk.[4]

[edit] 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.[5]

[edit] Published work

[edit] References

  1. ^ Polish culture: Ida Fink
  2. ^ Israel Prize for Literature awarded to Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky - Haaretz - Israel News
  3. ^ Education - Lesson Plan from Teaching the Legacy, E-newsletter
  4. ^ The Jewish Quarterly
  5. ^ Israel Prize for Literature awarded to Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky - Haaretz - Israel News
  6. ^ The University of Chicago Press (2001 - 2007). A scrap of time and other stories. BiblioVault. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
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