Ida Fink
Ida Fink (Hebrew: אידה פינק, 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish-born Israeli author who wrote about the Holocaust in Polish.
Biography
Ida Fink was born as Ida Landau in Zbaraż,
Literary career
Fink began publishing her short stories in 1958 but published her first anthology only in 1987. She wrote 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.[2] Her short stories appeared twice on the Polish Matriculation Exam, Matura.
Films
A documentary about Ida Fink, The Garden that Floated Away, was produced by Israeli filmmaker Ruth Walk.[3]
The film Das letzte Versteck (2002) was based on her book The Journey.
The 2008 film Spring 1941, directed by Uri Barbash, was based on her book Wiosna 1941.[4]
Awards
In 2008, Fink was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature.[5][6][7]
She has also won the Anne Frank Prize (1985), the Buchman Prize and the Sapir Prize.
Published work
- The Key Game (1986)
- A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1987)[8]
- The Journey (1990)
- Traces (1996)[9]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-83-7898-747-5.
- ^ Education - Lesson Plan from Teaching the Legacy, E-newsletter Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Jewish Quarterly". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
- ^ DVD credits.
- ^ Israel Prize for Literature awarded to Ida Fink, Tuvya Ruebner and Nili Mirsky - Haaretz - Israel News
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Recipient's C.V."
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) - Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient".
- ISBN 0810112590.
- ISBN 0-8050-4557-0.
External links
- Sara R. Horowitz, Biography of Ida Fink, Jewish Women's Encyclopedia
- Michael A. Rauch, Ida Fink: An Appreciation, The Forward, 17 October 2011
- Teaching the Holocaust through a story by Ida Fink Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Jewish Women's Archive page