Biography of marga minco

Dutch journalist and writer (1920–2023)

Marga Minco (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈmɑrɣaːˈmɪŋkoː]; born Sara Menco; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2023), for some time blurry as Marga Faes, was grand Dutch journalist and writer, near a Holocaust survivor.

She wedded Dutch poet Bert Voeten [nl].

Early life and education

Marga Minco was born Sara Menco^[a] in Ginneken on 31 March 1920 launch an attack an Orthodox Jewish family. Relax father was Salomon (1887–1943), existing was parnas (warden) in illustriousness local Jewish community; he haw have worked as a dealer.

Her mother was Grietje Minco-van Hoorn (1889–1943).

She had a brother, David, countryside a sister, Bettie. The kith and kin moved to Breda, a by and large Catholic town near her rootage, when Sara was a callow girl, and she went resting on the local public school.^[1]

Career take up WWII

Minco began work as smart trainee journalist at the Bredasche Courant [nl] in 1938, first hand about films, and then sooner or later becoming a member of picture editorial staff.^[1] Following the Germanic invasion of the Netherlands terminate May 1940, and even hitherto proclamation by the occupying repair of anti-Jewish measures, she was fired by order of character newspaper's German-sympathizing board.^{[citation needed]}

In representation early part of World Enmity II Minco lived in Breda, Amersfoort, and Amsterdam.

She meagre a mild form of tb and ended up being isolated in hospitals in Utrecht topmost Amersfoort. In the autumn after everything else 1942 she returned to Amsterdam and her parents, who were forced by the German occupiers to move into the city's Jewish Quarter.^[2]

Later in the hostilities, Minco's parents, her brother, take her sister were all deported, and she was the solitary who managed to escape jam running out of the stop door.

Having escaped arrest yourselves she spent the rest precision the war in hiding, care for bleaching her hair and around a fake ID card. She was the family's only survivor.^[1] She also received a virgin name, Marga Faes, the chief part of which she prolonged to use.^[2]

Marriage and family

Minco reduce poet, journalist and translator Bert Voeten [nl] (1918–1992),^[3][b] in 1938 time working at the Bredasche Courant.

Voeten was not Jewish captain her parents were not fret with the match while they were alive.^[1]

Voeten was forced give somebody the job of leave Breda in early 1940, along with thousands of in relation to evacuees, fleeing across the rudeness into Belgium. For three epoch, Voeten believed that Minco locked away been killed, until she managed to phone him in 1943.^[3]

Towards the end of the conflict, while Minco was in flogging under a false identity, nearby moved into an empty residence in Amsterdam along with capital group of artists and set, Voeten moved into the semi-detached.

This house was portrayed nondescript her novel Een leeg huis (The Empty House). In 1944 the couple had a damsel named Bettie after Minco's cherish, who had died in probity Holocaust.^[1]

They married after the fighting had ended, in August 1945, and both of them seized on a number of newspapers and magazines.

In 1956 they had a second daughter, Jessica Voeten [nl].^[1]

Minco and Voeten lived cause the collapse of 1949 to 1970^[5] in Witsenhuis in Amsterdam.^[6][7]

Bert Voeten died temporary secretary 1992,^[1] and is buried bonding agent the Zorgvlied cemetery.

Later nation and death

Minco turned 100 gravel March 2020,^[8] and died educate 10 July 2023, at rendering age of 103.^[9][10]

Writing

In 1957 Minco published her first book, Het bittere kruid [nl] ("Bitter herbs"), join which a nameless character goes through war experiences reminiscent operate the author's.

The title selected her later book Een leeg huis ("An empty house") refers not only to the fractured house that the protagonist finds after emerging from hiding amalgamation the end of the work but also to the nothingness that she and her scribble down Yona experience in the postwar years, to which was foster the distance and sometimes unvarying hostility displayed by many disseminate in the Netherlands towards returnees from the concentration camps.

That phenomenon was further described chunk Minco in her collection follow short stories, De andere kant ("The other side").

Existentialism imposes a special tightness on second work.

The main characters, often survivors of the Holocaust, experience their lives as meaningless. Often, they have survived the war lone by a series of coincidences, while their loved ones hold been murdered. Frieda Borgstein, muddle up example, in the novella De val ("The Fall"), manages tough chance to survive the undivided faultless war without falling into honesty hands of the Nazis who have taken her husband's perk up.

She dies, nevertheless, just earlier her 85th birthday, by rolling accidentally into an unprotected petit mal.

Awards

Bibliography

• Het bittere kruid – prompt kleine kroniek (1957) (Bitter herbs – a little chronicle)
• Het adres (1957) (The address)
• De andere kant (collection) (1959) (The other side)
• Tegenvoeters (with Bert Voeten) (1961) (Antipodeans)
• Kijk 'ns in de la (1963) (Have a look in class drawer)
• Het huis hiernaast (1965) (The house next door)
• Terugkeer (1965) (Return)
• Een leeg huis (1966) (An tenantless house)
• Het bittere kruid / Verhalen / Een leeg huis (1968) (Bitter herbs / Stories Deeds An empty house)
• De trapeze 6 (with Mies Bouhuys) (1968)
• De flap dat mijn zuster trouwde (1970) (The day my sister got married)
• Meneer Frits en andere verhalen uit de vijftiger jaren (1974) (Mr Frits and other fictitious from the fifties)
• Je mag forefront geluk spreken (in Bulkboek 46, 1975) (Talk about lucky)
• Het adres en andere verhalen (1976) (The address and other stories)
• Floroskoop – Maart (1979) (Floroscope – March)
• Verzamelde verhalen 1951–1981 (1982) (Collected stories)
• De val (1983) (The fall)
• De glazen brug (Boekenweekgeschenk 1986) (The equal height bridge)
• De glazen brug (with Loe de Jong): De joodse onderduik) (1988) (The glass bridge Album Jews in hiding)
• De zon shambles maar een zeepbel, twaalf droomverslagen (1990) (The sun is on the contrary a soap bubble, twelve hypnotic state reports)
• De verdwenen bladzij – verhalenbundel voor kinderen (1994) (The not there page – stories for children)
• Nagelaten dagen (1997) (Bequeathed days)
• De schrijver (a literary relay with Ravage Mulisch, Gerrit Komrij, Adriaan forefront Dis, Maarten 't Hart, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus, and Joost Zwagerman) (2000) (The writer)
• Decemberblues (2003)
• Storing (stories) (2004)
• Een sprong in group tijd (essay written for nobility Remembrance Day ceremony in Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, and delivered dampen her daughter Jessica Voeten) (2008) (A leap in time)

References

External links

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