Marga Minco, a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics, died on July 10 at her home in Amsterdam, at 103.

In her writing, Ms. Minco describe the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during WWII, based on her own experiences. She described incremental shifts to her life as Nazi persecution degraded and dismantled the Jewish community.

Because the protagonist of one of her stories is a young Jewish girl in hiding, and the book is written in diary form, she is often compared to Anne Frank. “In the Netherlands, Marga Minco is for the older generation just as famous as Anne Frank,” said Victor Schiferli, a fiction and poetry specialist with the Dutch Foundation for Literature. Her novel, Bitter Herbs, has been translated into 20 languages.