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She provides some details about how she survived in the camp, the very difficult few years following her release, and her life since as a filmmaker and activist against colonialism. The time in the camp and following is horrific, but not surprising given the many narratives about this time. The part I found most moving is the last third of the book, where she dwells on the long term effects of her survival.
The effects on her family, on how she has lived her life, her hopes for the world and her discouragement in the face of continued anti semitism, terrorism and violence. Somehow by complete coincidence, I read this book on the day following the horrendous acts of terrorism in Paris on November 13, I can't help wondering what Loridan-Ivans is thinking. The concept of writing about her life and reflections as a letter to her father is very powerful. It is a short book and well worth reading. View all 18 comments. This is a moving Novella written in the style of a letter from a daugher to her father.
Marceline and her father were both taken to concentration camps and separated and she survived to tell her story. This short book is very well written and I love how it centers around a letter Marceline receives while in the camp from her father and how years later she has no recollecti 3. This short book is very well written and I love how it centers around a letter Marceline receives while in the camp from her father and how years later she has no recollection of what was in that letter but she uses this book to reply to her father's letter and in doing so gives us a glimpse of what her life was like while in the camp and her struggles with life when she returns to her family I have read a great deal of books relating to this period of history and I always find something new and interesting in each book I read.
I listened to this on on audio and the narrator was very good. View all 3 comments. Mar 19, Lisa Vegan rated it it was amazing Shelves: Thanks to my Goodreads friend Chrissie for convincing me to read this book. It was worth taking a few hours away fr Thanks to my Goodreads friend Chrissie for convincing me to read this book.
But You Did Not Come Back
It was worth taking a few hours away from my novel to read it. This book gives me hope that perhaps there are other elderly Holocaust survivors who will write other worthy memoirs. She was a Jew in France and at 15 she was sent to the concentration camps. She writes about her experiences in the camps, a bit about her life prior to that, and a lot about the scope of her entire life.
She definitely makes a point of addressing the continued anti-Semitism in modern times and throughout various eras too, and the entirely of the book is what made it feel very important to me. I wish I could have read it in its original French but as far as I could tell it was a fine translation. By the time I got to the end though it felt complete.
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One of my grandparents was a Jew whose parents My great grandparents were born in Hungary, and their last name was Rosenberg, with the same meaning, just a different spelling. I also recently found out that two of my other grandparents had ancestors from Poland, one might have been born there himself. View all 22 comments. A brief, moving love letter from the author to her father, who died in Auschwitz while she survived in Birkenau, which she thought was far, far away — but was nearby, only 3km between them. She wrote this brief memoir when she was 87, after a full, busy, productive life but still suffering from the loss and the pain of separation.
And I can say it again now. For with time, the darkness of the camps over my life has merged with your absence. And it is having to live without you that weighs down on me. While other people kept disappearing, she was fulfilling his prophecy —she might come back. I was still alive—were you? Never allowed myself to believe that death would mean peace. The love that would save me.
He represented a land far away. The antidote to your absence. It certainly was worth it. View all 8 comments. This is a moving, novella length book, written almost as an open letter from the author to her father. Marcelline Loridan-Ivans was deported from France with her beloved father — he to Auschwitz and she to Birkenau.
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They were so close and yet divided. They only saw each other twice; the first time Marcelline ran to her father. During her time in the camp, Marcelline reflected that she lived only for the present, with no hope. Still, she refused to give in. Her father had stated to her that she would live, but he would not and somehow, she felt, she had to survive. Her hope, of course, was to be reunited with her father, but, sadly, that was not to be.
This short book is not only an important document of what happened to Marcelline, but tells poignantly about the aftermath of such life shattering events. For the author, there should have been some kind of happy ending; she does survive and returns to her mother and siblings. However, there is nobody with which to share her experiences or who understands her despair. Her mother is unable to deal with what happened and urges her to put her memories behind her and move on, but this is not possible and she feels bereft and alone.
I found this a very truthful read. The author tells of her emotions and feelings with candid reality. Although she adored her father, she openly acknowledged his failings in refusing to leave the country and of making the family too obvious, in the large house he purchased although I did admire this ambitious and flamboyant decision.
This is an important book and a testament to the man whose character shone out of the pages of this book- her beloved father, who I felt honoured to read about. Lastly, I received a copy of this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, for review. One of the best memoirs I've ever read, if not the best.
Marceline and her father had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, picked up together in occupied France by the Nazis and sent off to different camps. She tells of occasionally seeing her father, and of receiving a most cherished letter from him--the contents of which she later on would not be able to recall, something that haunted and troubled her throughout life. Yes, she was freed from the camp; her father was no One of the best memoirs I've ever read, if not the best. Yes, she was freed from the camp; her father was not. Feeling no closure, with no actual body or grave to visit, the memoir is addressed to her father as she recounts her life and feelings after being released.
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I think that was what I loved best. It felt so personal and so thoughtful; beautiful yet bittersweet. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher. View all 5 comments. Sep 02, Laysee rated it it was amazing Recommended to Laysee by: It remains in all our minds, and will until we die. It left me choking on silent tears. Marceline Loridan-Ivens is born in At age 15, she and father were deported, along with 76, French Jews, to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At the point of deportation, her father told her, "You might come back, because you're young, b "If you only knew, all of you, how the camp remains permanently within us.
At the point of deportation, her father told her, "You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come back. They were separated and Marceline recalled the anguish she felt, "Between us stood In her own words, "I know all the love those lines contained. I've spent my entire life trying to find that love. Trauma, mercifully or not, offered an automatic memory-erasing mechanism. This is just the tip of the iceberg of immense loss, anger, anxiety, and despondency that afflicted not just Marceline but also her siblings in the years to come. It is raw, visceral, and unsentimental in its depiction of a time in history we will all do well never to forget.
View all 15 comments. Por los muchos gritos ahogados de denuncia que uno quisiera exclamar? O por las alabanzas a la escritora por su tino y tono al redactarla de esta forma? Jun 06, Jennifer rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a short memoir, but it packs an emotional punch.
But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
The fact this is written in the first person, as a letter to her father, makes it so personal that it breaks yo This is a short memoir, but it packs an emotional punch. The fact this is written in the first person, as a letter to her father, makes it so personal that it breaks your heart a thousand times over. View all 4 comments. I really loved this book! It is not your typical Holocaust memoir only filled with horror, death, suicide and barbarism. The whole basis of this very short book is that her father managed somehow to sneak a tiny note to her while she was in Dachau and he was in Auschwitz and the whole short book is her answer to his few short lines written on a tiny scrap of paper that she could never figure out where he got it from, nor the pencil to write with.
So moving and human and inhumane and personal and intimate and far-reaching. This takes the form of long letter very short book from Marceline to her father. They were taken to separate but very close concentration camps during the second world war. She makes it home; he does not. Much like the memoirs I read for research for Our Endless Numbered Days of young women kidnapped and kept in isolation for many years, making it back to her family alive does not end the tragedy. Die wunderbare, pointierte Sprache der Autorin macht das Werk zu einem besonders eindringlichen Zeugnis des Holocaust.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens searingly honest memoir is written as an intimate letter to her lost father. In and aged just fifteen she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau along with her father. While she survived the horror he never came back. Here she tells the man she would never know as an adult about the terrible events that continue to haunt her, and she also reveals the profound sense of loss that his death brought her.
Feb 25, Petra rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a story with an interesting perspective. One thing I always take away from Holocaust memoirs is that something like this should never happen again. It's an atrocity that it happened once; lets never let it happen twice. Marceline's story is poignant and touching. It's told from a different perspective, I found. We hear of families that are sent to the camps but what happens when, during the arrests, only part of the family goes to the camps and only one of them returns?
How does that inf This is a story with an interesting perspective. How does that influence the person returning? And what about the other family members? How are their lives changed? Another hard fact was that lives were irreplaceably changed. There is no coming back after the camps. One's outlook, perspective, thoughts and ideas are never the same.
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Life is changed forever. A beautifully told account of one woman's struggle to find her way again. I recommend this one highly.
It's a memoir that I will remember. Feb 23, Yodamom rated it really liked it. Marceline, was taken to a camp with her father when she was just She writes of her nightmare, her community, her country, her family, but mostly the effect of losing her father and his dreams in such a way. Her painful memories that never diminished, while everyone kept telling her to just forget.
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