Ida Fink Quotes

Israeli writer (1921-2011)

Ida Fink (Hebrew: אידה פינק‎, 1 November 1921 – 27 September 2011) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and author who moved to Israel in 1957. She wrote stories in Polish that are set during the Holocaust.

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Native Name: אידה פינק

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He had that horrifying clarity of vision that comes just before death.

Our fate suddenly came to a halt and hung there for a moment, suspended over the abyss it had been racing toward, hung there for a few minutes (five? six?) and then, just as suddenly, turned...This was why I had come here, just for that moment at the crossroads, that sudden turn, that circus trick performed by our fate. (p248-9)

She went back into the room and carefully locked the door to the balcony, as if she could lock out all the evil events of the night. ("The End")