Ida Fink

Ida Fink (1985)

Ida Fink ( Hebrew אידה פינק; * November 1, 1921 in Sbarash ; † September 27, 2011 in Tel Aviv ) was a Polish - Israeli author .

Life

Fink was the daughter of a doctor and a teacher and grew up in Zbaraż , which was Polish at the time and had belonged to Poland since the Second Polish Republic was founded in 1918. She began studying music at the Lviv Conservatory in 1939 when eastern Poland was invaded and captured by the Soviet Union . When the Germans attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, a pogrom by Ukrainians first occurred in the town , in which forty Jews were killed. In Sbarasch, which now belongs to the General Government, the approx. 3,000 Jews of the small town and the approx. 2,000 Jewish refugees from Poland were deported to forced labor , murdered in Jewish actions and ghettoized at the end of 1942 . The last 150 Jews in the ghetto were murdered on June 19, 1943 by German police units near the city. Fink and her sister, on the other hand, were able to escape from the ghetto with forged papers, but were deported to Germany as Polish forced laborers .

After the Second World War , her hometown became Ukrainian again and Fink now moved to Poland, where she married and had a daughter. In 1957 she emigrated to Israel and lived in Cholon . She worked in a music library and interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Yad Vashem research institute . She later lived with her sister in Ramat Aviv near Tel Aviv . It wasn't until 1971 that she began to publish her works. She wrote exclusively in Polish, although she spoke several languages. Her writings, which have been translated into several languages, deal with the Holocaust and the trauma of survivors.

Awards

• 1985: Anne Frank Literature Prize
• 1995: Yad Vashem Prize
• 1996: Premio Alberto Moravia
• 2008: Israel Prize for Literature

Movie

• 2001: The trip to Germany with her sister in 1942 was filmed as a television play.
• 2008: Uri Barbash's film Spring 1941 is based on her novel.

Works

• A period of time. Translated from Polish by Klaus Staemmler. Ida and Bruno Fink translated the piece Der Tisch . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-293-00060-6 .
• The trip. Translated from Polish by Klaus Staemmler. Piper, Munich-Zurich 1991; Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1995; With an afterword by Monika Maron . Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-633-54251-2 .
• Notes on résumés. Translated from Polish by Esther Kinsky. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14586-4 .

literature

• Lemma Zbaraż , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust. Volume 2. Jerusalem 2009, ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 970-971
• Bartłomiej Krupa, Opowiedzieć Zagładę. Polska proza ​​i historiografia wobec Holocaustu (1987-2003). Krakow 2013.
• Janusz Waligóra, The Discreet Horror of the Holocaust in Ida Fink's Stories, in: CLEaR, 2016, 3 (1), pp. 27-38.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ida Fink in the catalog of the German National Library
• biography
• Report on a documentary film The Garden that Floated Away by Ruth Walk at The Jewish Quarterly
• portrait

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guy Miron: The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust , p. 971
2. ^ Eva Hoffman talks here to David Lasserson about Ida Fink jewishquarterly
3. ↑ Television play (drama) based on the novel of the same name by Ida Fink. Script: Peter Steinbach and Christoph Busch, WDR Die Reise ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Spring 1941 in the Internet Movie Database (English)