![]() In 1948, Ida married Bruno (Bronek) Fink, a survivor of four camps. A fictionalized account of the war years appears in her novel The Journey. The two sisters survived the war in hiding, by concealing their identities. A fair haired, blue-eyed young woman, Landau did not look identifiably Jewish. The Landau family was confined to the Zbarazh ghetto until 1942, when Ida and her younger sister acquired false identity papers. In 1941, her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty. The Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, when she was eighteen years old, terminated her studies. Interested in literature and music at the university level, she studied at the Lvov Conservatory and prepared for a career as a pianist. She frequently heard antisemitic remarks and understood that the changing political climate would radically circumscribe her education and professional aspirations. The family spoke Polish and German at home, rather than Yiddish.īy the time Ida Landau began her studies in gymnasium, the Nazi presence in Poland could be felt. ![]() Fink’s younger sister, Elsa, was born in 1922. Part of the Polish intelligentsia, they had a strong sense of identity as Jews and numbered both Jews and non-Jews in their social sphere. Her father was a physician, and her mother had a doctorate in natural sciences. Theirs was a family of secular Jews, well integrated into Polish culture. Ida Landau was born in Zbarazh, Poland (today, Ukraine) on November 1, 1921, to Ludwig and Fannie/Francisca (Stein) Landau. Her writing gives shape to the inner lives of victims and human faces to their experiences, while exposing the callousness of onlookers and the complicated motives even of rescuers. In a very different sense, the question might be applied to Fink’s oeuvre as a whole, which, through memory and imagination, resurrects victims, survivors, perpetrators, and others connected to the Nazi genocide. Zophia’s caustic question pertains to many of the characters that populate the world of Fink’s fiction and drama-survivors struggling with memory, radical bereavement, and the aftershock of atrocity. Years later, a solitary adult, she lives in studied self-sufficiency and with a discordant cheerfulness that she understands is a “symptom,” presumably of trauma. As a child, Zophia survived the war in solitude and silence, hiding in a barn and scavenging for food under cover of darkness at night. The aim of the study is to definethe peculiarities of the autobiographical genre, analyze its functions in the Holocaust literature and identify poetic elements of autobiography.“Did you ever see someone who was killed in the war but who is still alive?” With this trenchant remark, the central character of Ida Fink’s short story “Cheerful Zophia” encapsulates the after-effect of the Holocaust on her own life. Ida Fink and Charlotte Delbo write short stories with fictional narrators, but all the situations are certainly the experience of the writers themselves, who turn to the autofiction and conventions of F. Under the influence of trauma, the genre of autobiography can be modified in the literary text in such a way that the line between autobiography and fiction is blurred. Since autobiography has been considered a documentary genre with its own peculiarities, works on the Holocaust were seen as historical evidence of this event. The authors are representatives of the first generation of Holocaust survivors, which means that the genocide of Jews during World War II was a personal traumatic experience for them. ![]() ![]() Moreover' I am involved in other scientific projects connected to Holocaust history, memoralization and post-traumatic disorders caused by military conflicts.Ībstract: The research is based on a study of short stories collections by Israeli writer Ida Fink’s, All the Stories, and French writer Charlotte Delbo’s, Auschwitz and After, to reflect the impact of the Holocaust on autobiographical elements in their work. My scientific interests include: the impact of the Holocaust on the formation of identity and the category of time in literaure. The topic of my dissertation is "Trauma and Temporality in Women's Holocaust literature of the First Generation". I am a teacher and PhD student of the Philology Department at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Presentation title: The Holocaust Trauma and Autobiographism in Ida Fink’s and Charlotte Delbo’s StoriesĬV: My name is Anastasiia Mikhieieva. Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Mykolaiv. ![]()
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