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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
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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 she had been killed, until she managed to phone him in 1943.
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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
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They married after the war had ended, in August 1945, and both of them worked on a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1956 they had a second daughter,
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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
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in May 1940, and even before proclamation by the occupying forces of anti-Jewish measures, she was fired by order of the newspaper's
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family's only survivor. She also received a new name, Marga Faes, the first part of which she continued to use.
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in 1938, first writing about films, and then eventually becoming a member of the editorial staff. Following
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town near her birthplace, when Sara was a young girl, and she went to the local public school.
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imposes a special tightness on her work. The main characters, often survivors of the
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Her real surname was Menco, but an official accidentally switched the first vowel.
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1957 – Bureau voor Postreclame en Adressen De Mutator N.V., Short story prize for
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P.C. Hooftprijs voor Marga Minco - Meer dan schrijfster 'Het Bittere Kruid'
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in March 2020, and died on 10 July 2023, at the age of 103.
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Marga Minco 100 jaar: 'Ze vindt drie cijfers veel te veel'
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Meneer Frits en andere verhalen uit de vijftiger jaren
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family. Her father was Salomon (1887–1943), and was
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De verdwenen bladzij – verhalenbundel voor kinderen
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Bert Voeten
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Jessica Voeten
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the German invasion of the Netherlands

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