She has also won the Anne Frank Prize (1985), the Buchman Prize and the Sapir Prize. In 2008, Fink was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature. The 2008 film Spring 1941, directed by Uri Barbash, was based on her book Wiosna 1941. (1990 1983) A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, trans. Her short stories appeared twice on the Polish Matriculation Exam, Matura.Ī documentary about Ida Fink, The Garden that Floated Away, was produced by Israeli filmmaker Ruth Walk. From its survivor perspective, Ida Finks collection of short stories A Scrap of Time, ori. 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. She wrote in Polish, primarily on Holocaust themes. Literary career įink began publishing her short studies in 1958 but published her first anthology only in 1987. In her final years, she resided in Ramat Aviv, a neighborhood of Tel Aviv. In 1958, she began publishing short stories in Polish-language press. They settled in Holon, where she worked as a music librarian and an interviewer for Yad Vashem. In 1957, Fink and her family immigrated to Israel. After the Holocaust, Landau married Bruno Fink and had a daughter, Miri Fink. During those two years her mother also died of cancer. Landau and her family spent 1941–1942 in the Zbaraż ghetto, before escaping, along with her sister, with the help of Aryan papers. She was a student of music at the Lwów Conservatory, but her studies were halted by the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Her father, Ludwig Landau, was a physician and her mother, Fannie Landau, worked as a teacher in a local school. Ida Fink was born as Ida Landau in Zbaraż, Poland (now Zbarazh, Ukraine) on 1 November 1921 to a Polish-Jewish family. Their chubby, round-faced cousin Dawid, who was always clumsy at gymnastics and sports, climbed a tree & wrapped his arms around the trunk like a child hugging his mother, and that was the way he died.Polish-born Israeli author (1921 – 2011) Ida Fink (1985)ġ November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish. How the people were taken to a forest nearby, and shot there. After the war, the peasant returned and told them everything. There were rumors, but no witnesses spoke. This was the first group of people the Nazis took from Lubianki. His isolation in hiding seemed more unbearable than the unknown outside his window. It said, "I myself am to blame, forgive me." Much can be explained by the fact tha the room David hid in overlooked the marketplace, that crowd of friends and relatives. He had left a message for his mother, which a peasant delivered. The narrator and her sister returned home, and learned that Dawid had been taken by the Nazis. Dawid, their cousin, was there but an old friend of the family took him and hid him in his house. The narrator trembled and ran away with her sister. When the narrator and her sister arrived in town, they saw the crowd gathered-ominous and silent. The older relatives decided at the last minute to disobey the orders-at their age, they were afraid of heavy physical labor. For some reason, they took the back route. After a normal breakfast at home, she and her sister went to town. The orders had been posted the previous evening(they thought people were to be taken to labor camps). The first action, a round up in front of town hall. She was afraid, too, that she might have forgotten things, but, she found it untouched by forgetfulness. For so long the narrator has wanted to talk about a certain time in Lubianki, oland, but didn't know how.
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