The novels often use a first-person narrative to highlight the enormity of destruction that occurred during the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe. Her other works likewise belong to Holocaust literature. The Journey deals with the peregrination of two Polish Jewish sisters who sought to escape the Nazi terror. Fink is the author of A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1987), of the novels The Journey (1992) and Traces (1997), of several radio plays broadcast in Israel and elsewhere, and of other works.Ī Scrap of Time depicts the life of Jews in Poland during and after the Second World War. She received the Anne Frank Prize for Literature in 1985, and the Yad Vashem Prize in 1995. She writes mostly in Polish, but her writings have appeared in Hebrew, English, Dutch, French and German translations. She now lives in Holon near Tel Aviv, and is still writing. The story of Ida Fink's survival is concealed in her heart.( 1) She emigrated to Israel in 1957, together with her husband and daughter. The names of the heroes who risked their lives daily to provide her with false identity papers and a job remain unknown it appears that they have not been recognized or rewarded. She survived the war among Polish farm laborers, herself masquerading as one. Born in Poland in 1921, she was a music student who lived in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland until 1942, when she escaped.
Like Primo Levi and Paul Celan, Ida Fink excels in transforming individual wartime experiences into literature. One can't say how life is, how chance or fate deals with people, except by telling a tale. Life Against Death: The Writings of Ida Fink and Tadeusz Borowski Jolanta W. Life Against Death: SR, January 2002 This Issue
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