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Marga Minco
Marga Minco (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑrɣaː ˈmɪŋkoː]; born Sara Menco; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2023), for some time known as Marga Faes, was a Dutch journalist and writer, and a Holocaust survivor. She married Dutch poet Bert Voeten.
Marga Minco was born Sara Menco in Ginneken on 31 March 1920 to an Orthodox Jewish family. Her father was Salomon (1887–1943), and was parnas (warden) in the local Jewish community; he may have worked as a salesman. Her mother was Grietje Minco-van Hoorn (1889–1943). She had a brother, David, and a sister, Bettie. The family moved to Breda, a predominantly Catholic town near her birthplace, when Sara was a young girl, and she went to the local public school.
Minco began work as a trainee journalist at the Bredasche Courant in 1938, first writing about films, and then eventually becoming a member of the editorial staff. Following the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, and even before proclamation by the occupying forces of anti-Jewish measures, she was fired by order of the newspaper's German-sympathizing board.[citation needed]
In the early part of World War II Minco lived in Breda, Amersfoort, and Amsterdam. She contracted a mild form of tuberculosis and ended up being treated in hospitals in Utrecht and Amersfoort. In the autumn of 1942 she returned to Amsterdam and her parents, who were forced by the German occupiers to move into the city's Jewish Quarter.
Later in the war, Minco's parents, her brother, and her sister were all deported, and she was the only who managed to escape by running out of the back door. Having escaped arrest herself she spent the rest of the war in hiding, after bleaching her hair and obtaining a fake ID card. She was the family's only survivor. She also received a new name, Marga Faes, the first part of which she continued to use.
Minco met poet, journalist and translator Bert Voeten (1918–1992), in 1938 while working at the Bredasche Courant. Voeten was not Jewish and her parents were not pleased with the match while they were alive.
Voeten was forced to leave Breda in early 1940, along with thousands of other evacuees, fleeing across the border into Belgium. For three years, Voeten believed that Minco had been killed, until she managed to phone him in 1943.
Towards the end of the war, while Minco was in hiding under a false identity, and moved into an empty house in Amsterdam along with a group of artists and students, Voeten moved into the house. This house was portrayed in her novel Een leeg huis (The Empty House). In 1944 the couple had a daughter named Bettie after Minco's sister, who had died in the Holocaust.
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Marga Minco
Marga Minco (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑrɣaː ˈmɪŋkoː]; born Sara Menco; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2023), for some time known as Marga Faes, was a Dutch journalist and writer, and a Holocaust survivor. She married Dutch poet Bert Voeten.
Marga Minco was born Sara Menco in Ginneken on 31 March 1920 to an Orthodox Jewish family. Her father was Salomon (1887–1943), and was parnas (warden) in the local Jewish community; he may have worked as a salesman. Her mother was Grietje Minco-van Hoorn (1889–1943). She had a brother, David, and a sister, Bettie. The family moved to Breda, a predominantly Catholic town near her birthplace, when Sara was a young girl, and she went to the local public school.
Minco began work as a trainee journalist at the Bredasche Courant in 1938, first writing about films, and then eventually becoming a member of the editorial staff. Following the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, and even before proclamation by the occupying forces of anti-Jewish measures, she was fired by order of the newspaper's German-sympathizing board.[citation needed]
In the early part of World War II Minco lived in Breda, Amersfoort, and Amsterdam. She contracted a mild form of tuberculosis and ended up being treated in hospitals in Utrecht and Amersfoort. In the autumn of 1942 she returned to Amsterdam and her parents, who were forced by the German occupiers to move into the city's Jewish Quarter.
Later in the war, Minco's parents, her brother, and her sister were all deported, and she was the only who managed to escape by running out of the back door. Having escaped arrest herself she spent the rest of the war in hiding, after bleaching her hair and obtaining a fake ID card. She was the family's only survivor. She also received a new name, Marga Faes, the first part of which she continued to use.
Minco met poet, journalist and translator Bert Voeten (1918–1992), in 1938 while working at the Bredasche Courant. Voeten was not Jewish and her parents were not pleased with the match while they were alive.
Voeten was forced to leave Breda in early 1940, along with thousands of other evacuees, fleeing across the border into Belgium. For three years, Voeten believed that Minco had been killed, until she managed to phone him in 1943.
Towards the end of the war, while Minco was in hiding under a false identity, and moved into an empty house in Amsterdam along with a group of artists and students, Voeten moved into the house. This house was portrayed in her novel Een leeg huis (The Empty House). In 1944 the couple had a daughter named Bettie after Minco's sister, who had died in the Holocaust.
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