Minco, Marga

found: Middeldorp, A. Over het proza van Marga Minco, 1981:t.p. (Marga Minco) p. 9 (Sara Menco, b. 3/31/20)

found: English Wikipedia, viewed on July 16th, 2023:(Marga Minco; pseudonym of Sara Menco; 31 March 1920 - 10 July 2023) was a Dutch journalist and writer.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marga_Minco

found: Dutch Wikipedia, viewed on July 16th, 2023(Marga Minco, pseudonym of Sara Minco (Ginneken, March 31, 1920 - Amsterdam, July 10, 2023), was a Dutch writer of "humorous and absurdist stories and evocative, austere narratives." Her widely translated war chronicle Het bittere kruid (1957) is a classic of European literature about World War II. For her entire oeuvre, she received the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2005 and the P.C. Hooft Prize in 2019.) - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marga_Minco

found: New York times, 17 July 2023:in an obituary on page A20 (Marga Minco; born Sara Minco on Mar. 31, 1920 in the village of Ginneken, the Netherlands, died July 10 [2023] in Amsterdam, aged 103; a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics. In her writing, Ms. Minco described the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during World War II based on her own experiences. For a pen name, she dropped her given name, Sara, and chose Marga, one of the aliases on the false ID she had used when she went into hiding; her first and best-known book, "Het Bittere Kruid," published in English as "Bitter herbs" is now seen as a touchstone of European Holocaust literature)