Manja Croiset

Manja Croiset (5 July 1946, Amsterdam – January 2022, Hoogland (Amersfoort)[1]) is a Dutch poet, writer and recitation artist.

After elementary school Manja attended Barlaeus Gymnasium,[3] but was admitted into a psychiatric hospital at an early age.

[4] Croiset started her career later in life, but wrote numerous books in a short period.

The reoccurring subject lines in her books are about being a second generation Shoah victim and her life in the many different psychiatric institutions.

Showed on Nationaal Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam April 2018 and is also in the collection of Yad Vashem[9] included the autobiography with a Wink in the darkness.