![]() ![]() Een kleine Kroniek: 1957) that won her several literary prizes. Her first novel was semi-autobiographical Bitter Herbs. She made her literary debut with one of the three novellas of award-winning Het adres (1957) that she brought out together with writers Ingeborg Rutgers and Auke Jelsma. Until German invasion she worked as a journalist and then went underground with false papers to pass as Christian. ![]() ![]() Marga Minco was born Sara Menco in Ginneken, The Netherlands, in March 1920. The narrator of Bitter Herbs by Marga Minco observes the growing concern of her apparently calm family, notably her parents, as race laws are gradually implemented in the German-occupied Netherlands and deportation to the Polish concentration camps becomes a daily threat. In a modern European country like Germany people couldn’t be so barbarous as that, could they? Therefore even when their countries were annexed or occupied, many Jews lulled themselves into a false sense of security until it was too late for escape. When eye witnesses and hard facts of systematic atrocities turned up eventually – as they use to, in general –, the world was dumbfounded and reluctant to take them at face value. The horrors that alleged “enemies of the Third Reich”, most of all those with Jewish ancestors, had to endure under Nazi reign were so appalling that at the time many simply couldn’t believe rumours about them. ![]()
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