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"You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come
back."--Marceline Loridan-Ivens' father, speaking to her at the
Drancy internment camp, April 1944 A runaway international
bestseller, But You Did Not Come Back garnered rave reviews and
features on hardcover publication, including a New York Times
profile on the author. 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 fifteen was arrested by the Vichy government's militia, along
with her father. At the internment camp of Drancy, France, her
father told her that he would not come back, preparing her for the
worst. On their arrival at the camps, they were separated--her
father sent to Auschwitz, she to the neighboring camp of Birkenau.
The three kilometers that separated them were an insurmountable
distance, and yet before he died in the camps, he managed to send
her a small note, a sign of life that gave Marceline hope to go on.
In But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline writes back to her father.
The book is a letter to the man she would never know as an adult,
to the person whose death overshadowed her whole life. Although her
grief never diminished in its intensity, Marceline ultimately found
a calling, working on behalf of many disenfranchised groups, both
as an activist for Algerian independence and a documentary
filmmaker. And now, as France and Europe 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.
In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was
arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent
to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to
smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her father
again. But You Did Not Come Back is Marceline's letter to the
father she would never know as an adult. This is a breath-taking
memoir by an extraordinary woman, and a deeply moving message from
a daughter to a father.
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