A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
by Ida Fink
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These stories are about the daily life of Polish Jews during World War II written by a Holocaust survivor.Tags
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This book features a series of short memories of the days when the Nazis were decimating Polish people. Some of the stories were autobiographical, some were from other people. They featured scenes of horror when the Nazis called people out of the houses and divided them into useful or not useful professions. The people deemed not useful were either slaughtered immediately in the town square or loaded in trucks to the cemetery, made to dig a mass grave, and slaughtered there. Some people managed to hide by staying motionless for months in spaces under cow barns or in pit sties. The last part of the book was a script were witnesses to the slaughter were grilled for precise memories.
This book is different from others about the Holocaust show more because we don't leave the town, people were not always noble, and we are never taken to the work camps. The scenes of people returning to the town were quite poignant. show less
This book is different from others about the Holocaust show more because we don't leave the town, people were not always noble, and we are never taken to the work camps. The scenes of people returning to the town were quite poignant. show less
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Ida Fink was born January 11, 1921, in Zbaraz, Poland, now part of Ukraine. She attended the High School of Music in Lwow, Poland, from 1938-41 but was forced to live in hiding through much of World War II. She emmigrated to Israel in 1957 and began her work at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum, recording the memories and experiences show more of other Jewish survivors. Fink worked as a librarian from 1972-82. Fink delayed her writing for more than 10 years after the Holocaust in order to achieve the emotional distance that would allow her to write in the proper voice. She recounts the genocide of her people in A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1987), a semiautobiographical collection consisting of 22 stories and a short play first published in Hebrew translation as Pisat zman, Massada (1975). Other titles include Stot, a one-act play that was produced for Israeli radio in 1970 and German television in Germany in 1981; Slady, a radio play, in 1986; and Podroz, a novel, in 1990. She received the Anne Frank Prize for Literature in 1985, and Prix Litteraire Wizo, 1990, both for A Scrap of Time. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
- Original title
- Skrawek czasu
- Original publication date
- 1983
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 891.8 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)
- LCC
- PG7165 .I44 .S513 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Slavic Polish
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- 6 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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- 14
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