User:Louise Bamberg/Manja Croiset

Manja Croiset was born in July 1946 in Amsterdam as the youngest of three daughters of Holocaust survivors. Her father, half Jewish, was in concentration camps during the war because of underground printing, including printing for the famous Dutch newspaper Het Parool. Her mother lost her entire family - grandparents, parents, brother and sister - during this tragic period of history.

The war damaged this family severe. So Manja came on a very youg age in mental hospitals. Later she worked at the newspaper "HET LEIDSCH DAGBLAD". Much later she started to publish (all of them about her troubles). Poems and her autobiography.

Several You tubes movies with declamation of her work, this is one of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0QH3QWs-rU&feature=related
 * Dissonante symphony, poetry.
 * Uit de spelonken van mijn ziel. Poetry.
 * Mijn leven achter onzichtbare tralies. Autobiography first version.
 * Out of the caves from my soul. Poetry
 * Croisade van een Croiset, poems and columns.
 * Mijn leven achter onzichtbare tralies Second version included 2 cd's
 * Toeschouwer of deelnemer an anthology of her work.
 * Een knipoog in de duisternis, poetry and columns.