Ida Fink was born in Poland in 1921 and studied music until the Nazi occupation. Confined in a ghetto during 1942, she survived the war using fake papers. In 1957 she emigrated to Israel, where she worked in a music library and where she died in September 2011. Ida Fink is also the author of El viaje, a collection of stories that received the Anna Frank Prize for Literature. In 1995 he also received the Yad Vashem Prize, the highest recognition of literature on the Holocaust. In 2008, the film director Uri Barbash directed the film Spring 1941, based on his work.