Marga Minco is a Dutch writer who was born Sara Menco in 1920 in Ginneken, Netherlands. She works as a journalist and writes under the pen name Marga Minco, which came about due to an official accidentally switching the first vowel of her real surname. The document discusses a short story by Minco that tells the poignant story of a daughter searching for her mother's belongings after the war in Holland, finding that the objects evoke memories of her old life, but ultimately deciding to leave the items behind and move forward.