Fink, Ida
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Name (Hebrew)
פינק, אידה, 1921-2011
Name (Latin)
Fink, Ida
Name (Arabic)
فينك، ايدا
Other forms of name
Finḳ, Idah
Date of birth
1921-11-01
Date of death
2011-09-27
Place of birth
Zbaraż (Poland)
Place of death
Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)
Associated country
Israel
Poland
Place of residence/headquarters
Holon (Israel) (1957 - 2011)
Field of activity
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
pol
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002:pages 48-50 (Ida Fink, 1921-; best known for "A Scrap of Time", a book of sketches, short stories and a short play that reflect the cruelty of the Holocust and "conveys exquisetly a sense of what it was like, for Poles, as well as Jews, to be living in Poland under the Nazi occupation" Family was confined to a ghetto until her father obtained forged documents for she and her sister who both lived in a German forced labor camp until its liberation. Returned to Poland until her 1957 immigration to Israel. Worked for the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Awarded the Yad Vashem Prize in 1995 for her her Holocaust writings)
- Her A scrap of time and other stories, 1987:CIP t.p. (Ida Fink) publisher data (lives in Israel and works at Yad Vashem)
- The Author's פיסת זמן, (c1974).
- The Author's التمساح وفرشاته الطائرة, ١٩٧١.
- Her The journey, 1992:CIP t.p. (Ida Fink) pub. info (b. 1921 in Poland)
- Polish Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 29, 2011(Ida Fink; b. Nov. 1, 1921, Zbaraż [Poland; now Zbaraz︠h︡, Ukraine]; d. Sept. 27, 2011, Tel Aviv; Polish-language author of Jewish origin, living in Israel since 1957)
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