Marceline Loridan-Ivens / Marceline Rozenberg (F / France, 1928-2018), Holocaust survival
Marceline Loridan-Ivens / Marceline Rozenberg (F / France, 1928-2018), Holocaust survival
- KEYWORDS : <Deportees> <Auschwitz> <Bergen-Belsen> <Theresienstadt> <Liberation of Theresienstadt> -- <France>
- MEMOIRS : But You Did Not Come Back (2015)
Biography
Marceline Rozenberg was born to Polish Jewish parents who emigrated to France since 1919. At the beginning of World War II, her family settled in Vaucluse,[5] where she joined the French Resistance. She and her father, Szlama, were captured by the Gestapo[6][7] and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by Convoy 71 on 13 April 1944[8], along with Simone Veil[9][10] and Anne-Lise Stern, then to Bergen-Belsen, and eventually to Theresienstadt. The camp was liberated on 10 May 1945.[11] by the Red Army.
Back to France, she had a successful career as actress and filmmaker.
Book : But You Did Not Come Back (2015)
- Et tu n'es pas revenu (Grasset, 2015). English ed. But You Did Not Come Back
"<You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come back.> (Marceline Loridan's father to her, 1944) ... A runaway best seller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, who, at the age of 15, was arrested in occupied France along with her father. Later, in the camps, he managed to smuggle a note to her, a sign of life that made all the difference to Marceline—but he died in the Holocaust while Marceline survived ... In But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline writes back to her father, the man whose death overshadowed her whole life. Although her grief never diminished in its intensity, Marceline ultimately found her calling working as both an activist and a documentary filmmaker. But now, as France and Europe in general face growing anti-Semitism, Marceline feels pessimistic about the future. Her testimony is a memorial, a confrontation, and a deeply affecting personal story of a woman whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt."--Publisher description