Ida Fink Quotes

1921–2011 Israel

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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What our cousin experienced, locked up in that room, will remain forever a mystery.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Each day and night of those weeks could fill a book, if only the pen could take on this burden of despair and helpless loneliness.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

The execution itself did not take long; more time was spent on the preparatory digging of the grave.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Some questions should not even be thought. The facts alone suffice.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

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

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

This time was measured not in months but in a word-we no longer said "in the beautiful month of May," but "after the first 'action,' or the second, or "right before the third."

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

September came, and with it the war; the radio spoke a strange new language of exhortations and abbreviations.

Traces: Stories (1997)

She went for so long without talking that silence became a habit.

Traces: Stories (1997)

Finally she says, "What I remember best is the silence. But you can't talk about silence. Silence is the opposite of talk," she explains.

Traces: Stories (1997)

If the police didn't show up before then. Always that little word: if. (p178)

The Journey (1990)

She watched him lying there, defenseless as a child and, like a child, unconscious of the evil that had been unleashed. ("The End")

Traces: Stories (1997)

Once again it was quiet, too quiet after what had happened. ("The End")

Traces: Stories (1997)

"I always wanted to paint. Always, before the war, that is. But I was thirteen then." ("Splinter")

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

time brought all of us something quite different than what our childhoods promised.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

There are thoughts that wither under the gaze of others, that are wounded by the breath of others, that the slightest disruption destroys. ("The Other Shore")

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Because many places that year had posted signs that said NO DOGS OR JEWS ALLOWED, the only amusements left were strolls along the river that flowed through the clean, Germanized town.

Traces: Stories (1997)

After he left, no one laughed out loud anymore. Quiet snickering, muffled by blankets, rippled through the room. And those laughing whispers frightened us more than the hysterical screams. (p93)

The Journey (1990)

at the time, even eighteen-year-olds were nostalgic for the past.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

Again we thought, let us survive-but now we were talking about the bombs and the rattling guns. (p237)

The Journey (1990)

One pebble had fallen; I awaited the avalanche. ("The Other Shore")

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ida Fink (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.