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Marga Minco (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑrɣaː ˈmɪŋkoː]; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2023) born Sara Menco, and for some time known as Marga Faes was a Dutch journalist and writer, and a Holocaust survivor.
Marga Minco (b. 1920) is a Dutch writer famous for her literary work relating to the Holocaust and for her economical use of words. Both topic and writing style have made her work unique.
Jul 15, 2023 · Marga Minco, a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics, died on Monday at her home in Amsterdam....
Marga Minco, pseudoniem van Sara Minco (Ginneken, 31 maart 1920 – Amsterdam, 10 juli 2023), was een Nederlandse schrijfster van 'humoristische en absurdistische verhalen en suggestieve, sobere vertellingen'.
Jul 19, 2023 · Marga Minco, Holocaust writer of understated power, dies at 103 - The Washington Post. Her best-selling 1957 novel ‘Bitter Herbs,’ based on her wartime experience in the Netherlands, made her one...
MINCO, Marga. Pseudonym for Sara Menco. Nationality: Dutch. Born: Ginneken, 31 March 1920. Family: Married Bert Voeten in 1945 (died 1992); two daughters. Career: Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Marga Minco is the only member of her immediate family to have survived the Second World War. Her mother and father, her brother and his fiancée, her sister and her sister’s husband were all deported to concentration camps.
MINCO, MARGA (1920– ), Dutch author, born in Ginneken (near Breda), who lived in Amsterdam. Her first book, the short novel Het bittere kruid (1957; The Bitter Herb, 1960), describes the deportation of her family and her own survival in hiding during World War II.
Jun 4, 2020 · In fact, she was a twenty-year-old journalist for the Bredasche Courant and her story of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands is not a first-person text in a narrow sense, but rather a subtle and complex literary work, permeated with allusions to Jewish culture.
When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the...
