She uses images, symbols, and metaphors (especially those deriving from nature) to highlight the facts: "The Garden That Floated Away," "A Spring Morning," "A Scrap of Time." Her heroes are possessed of two types of recollection: the horizontal one which registers the conventional everyday events, and the vertical one which reaches deeply into the subconscious and into the obscure layers of the psyche. E.g., those persons who were either pressed or compelled to go to Germany to do ‘voluntary' labor for the Reich: can they be judged by standards that prevail in peacetime societies? Fink tells individual stories in an understated way. Fink's writings take on the subtleties of moral behavior in critical situations. On January 20, 1942, at a conference at Wannsee near Berlin, top Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann, proposed and accepted "the final solution to the Jewish question." It was decided that Jews would be evacuated from all parts of occupied Europe to camps in the ‘East' (read: Poland) where they would be exterminated. This fact will matter forever to the Polish population. While the fate of European Jewry was determined by the Nazis who invaded Poland in September 1939 and occupied half of the country (the other half was invaded by the Soviets and occupied by them until 1941 when the Soviet-German war broke out), the tragedy of Jewish extermination occurred on Polish soil. 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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