Marga Minco was a Jewish schoolgirl in the Holland of 1940, and this book tells how she watched the sky darken over her country. Alone of her family she escaped arrest and death in a concentration camp, yet, like the diary of Anne Frank, this book appears not so much as an accusation as a comfort.

Bitter Herbs: The Vivid Memories of a Fugitive Jewish Girl in Nazi Occupied Holland

Minco, Marga

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Selling more than 400,000 copies in Holland, this is a deeply affecting novel about the plight of the Jews in Holland during the German occupation in the last war.

The Glass Bridge

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Peter Owen Publishers

After the allies liberate Holland, Yona, a young Jew who has spent the Nazi occupation in hiding, returns to her family's house in Amsterdam; it is boarded up and locked, and when Yona pokes her hand through the mail slot, she feels ""a big, cold hole."" Its occupants deported and killed, its furnishings carted off, and its floors and walls used for fuel during the bitter last winter of the war, the house is pitilessly empty, a concrete symbol of the void left by the Holocaust. The image of the empty house acts as a prison for Yona and for her friend Sepha, also the sole living member of her family, as both women are hollowed by losses too vast to mourn...Effectively understated, this impressive novel is no less delicate than it is disturbing."" - Publishers Weekly.

An Empty House

Contemporary

Peter Owen Ltd

A short autobiographical novel about a young Jewish girl in the 1940s from an acclaimed Dutch writer which has been compared to Anne Frank's Diary 'The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate.' The Netherlands, World War II 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 Dutch Jews. But when the authorities finally come to the family home a split decision will have devastating consequences. Marga Minco's autobiographical novel Bitter Herbs is a Dutch classic that has been translated into more than fifteen languages. This deceptively simple and profoundly moving tale is now reissued with a new translation by Jeannette K Ringold.

Bitter Herbs: Based on a True Story of a Jewish Girl in Nazi-Occupied Holland

Arts & Literature

Ebury Press

<div> During the Nazi occupation of Holland Turing World War II, Jewish writer Marga Minco&#8217;s parents and siblings were deported to concentration camps. None returned. In her first novel, Minco evokes with simplicity and distance her memories from the years during the war: the night her family gathered to sew the cloth stars to their coats that would identify them as Jewish, the day the recruitment order for the work camp came in, and the police raids that emptied whole streets. nbsp; Durante la ocupación nazi de Holanda en la segunda guerra mundial, los padres y los hermanos de la escritora judía Marga Minco fueron deportados a campos de concentración. Ninguno regresó. En su primera novela Minco evoca con sencillez y distanciamiento sus recuerdos de los años de la guerra: la noche en que toda la familia se reunió para coser en los abrigos las estrellas de tela que los identificaban como judíos, el día que llegó la orden de reclutamiento para el campo de trabajo y las redadas que vaciaban calles enteras. </div>

La hierba amarga (Spanish Edition)

Historical

Libros del Asteroide

Het bittere kruid: een kleine kroniek

Literary

Bert Bakker

De Val (Dutch Edition) by Marga Minco. 1983 hardcover published by Uitgeverij Bert Bakker. Text in Dutch.

De Val (Dutch Edition)

Uitgeverij Bert Bakker

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