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Finally, the march begins, and the men “were passing their homes and the children and grandchildren hidden behind their windows. ” watch the old men of the village being assembled by the SS in the marketplace. It tells of all those “reprieved until the next time. Her stories revolve around the terrible choices that the Jews had to. Ida Fink wrote in Polish, primarily on Holocaust themes. The shortest story is titled only by five asterisks-”*****.” It speaks for itself. Ida Fink, a famous Polish-Israeli author, was born OTD 100 years ago. Besides the title story, several stand out as particularly affecting-”The Shelter,” “Crazy,” “The Black Beast.” With the exception of “The Table,” a brilliant play for four voices and basso ostinato, the stories unfold like a deadly hand of cards, loosely ordered from “before” to “after.” Each piece is honed down to the barest bones. Instead, she makes us squint to see, lean forward to hear, and unable, afterward, to shake the heartsickness her work has ignited. Akin to Marguerite Duras, her style is spare, quiet there are no theatrics.

Ida Fink calls her stories “fragments of biography.” She herself is a survivor/witness, born in Poland in 1921, now living in Israel and working at the Holocaust memorial of Yad Veshem. The title story, “A Scrap of Time”-(already deservedly honored with the first Anne Frank Prize for Literature and translated into Dutch, Hebrew and German)-plunges us into this world. after that event and the quote reflects that time is not measured. that what she is going to say be written down and preserved forever, because she wants a trace to remain.” And so these traces remain. In this paper an attempt is made to establish that Ida Finks narratives are unique. But none of the children moved.” This mother who survives as a witness to the monstrosity asks the narrator of the story “. At the sound of chimes ringing so musically from his mother's lips, the boy jumped up from his chair and ran to the front door, which was separated from the main room by a narrow strip of corridor. Her 'ding-dong' was quite a soft, lovely bell. ‘Now each of you go and run to your parents.’. Then the woman called out softly, 'Ding-dong.' She was imitating the doorbell and she did it beautifully. “They were sitting on straw, one beside the other. We may ask, why must we go back yet again and tell of this monstrosity? This question is answered in the story “Traces” by a mother who has watched her own children deny her in order to spare her life. These stories all take place during the German occupation of Poland, if not slightly before, then during-but never afterwards, even if set upon a calendar page after the chronological end of the war, since for those few who survived and do the telling, time and life in a “normal” way will never resume. The source of this wetness is always fresh human blood. This meadow is soggy in summer, and the snow is stained bright red in winter. There’s always a central square or marketplace into which Jews are being assembled by Nazi decree, and several miles away is a meadow surrounded by woods. With a few exceptions, the place is always a small rural village in Poland sometimes called Lubianki, or N-, sometimes bisected by the river Gniezna, of “the dirty-yellow color of beer.” The characters have tongue-twisting names like Wojciech, Ludeczek, Tadeusz. Scraps, remnants, swatches of reconstituted memory are patched together in this extraordinary collection of semiautobiographical stories by Ida Fink.