Background
Ida Fink was born in Zbaraż, Poland (now Zbarazh, Ukraine) on 1 November 1921 to a Polish-Jewish family. Her father was a physician and her mother worked as a teacher in a local school.
( Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/B...)
Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Winner of the Anne Frank Prize These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.
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Ida Fink was born in Zbaraż, Poland (now Zbarazh, Ukraine) on 1 November 1921 to a Polish-Jewish family. Her father was a physician and her mother worked as a teacher in a local school.
She was a student of music at the Lwów Conservatory. In 1941-1942, she spent two years in the Zbaraż ghetto, before escaping with the help of Aryan papers. In 1957, Fink immigrated to Israel.
She settled in Holon, where she worked as a music librarian and an interviewer for Yad Vashem.
She published her first story in 1971. Fink 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.
( Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/B...)
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