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Fink, Ida

LC control no.n 86077528
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPG7165.I44
PT2666.I5
Personal name headingFink, Ida
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Variant(s)Finḳ, Idah
פינק, איד
Associated countryPoland Israel
Associated placeJerusalem
Birth date1921-11-01
Death date2011-09-27
Place of birthZbaraż (Poland)
Place of deathTel Aviv (Israel)
Field of activityHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
AffiliationYad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. Muzeʼon
Profession or occupationAuthors
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHer A scrap of time and other stories, 1987: CIP t.p. (Ida Fink) publisher data (lives in Israel and works at Yad Vashem)
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)
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)
Associated languagepol