French writer and director
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Born Marceline Rozenberg
(1928-03-19 ) 19 March 1928Died 18 September 2018(2018-09-18) (aged 90)Paris, France
Occupation(s) Writer and filmmaker Years active 1962–2014 Spouse
Joris Ivens
Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Rozenberg ; 19 March 1928
[1] – 18 September 2018
[2] ) was a French writer and film director. Her memoir But You Did Not Come Back details her time in
Auschwitz-Birkenau .
[3] She was married to
Joris Ivens .
[4]
Biography
Marceline Rozenberg was born to Polish Jewish parents who emigrated to France in 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 .
She married [
when? ] Francis Loridan, an engineer. Years later they divorced, but she was allowed to keep his surname.
[12]
She joined the
French Communist Party in 1955 and left it a year later. She then encountered "deviationists", such as
Henri Lefebvre and
Edgar Morin ,
[13] wrote manuscripts for intellectuals, worked in the reprographic service of a polling institute, was bag carrier for the
Algerian National Liberation Front and frequented
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
[14]
In 1961,
Edgar Morin cast her in the film
Chronique d'un été , thus making her film debut. In 1963, she met and married the documentary director
Joris Ivens . She assisted him in his work and co-directed some of his films, including
17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (1968).
[15] They left together for Vietnam, where they met
Ho Chi Minh .
[14]
From 1972 to 1976, during the
Cultural Revolution , Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan worked in China and directed
How Yukong Moved the Mountains , a series of 12 films
[16] Criticized by
Jiang Qing , they had to quickly leave China.
[17]
Loridan-Ivens gave lectures and testimonies in colleges and high schools on the
Holocaust .
[14]
Partial filmography
As director
As actress
Screenwriter
Awards and nominations
Publications
17e parallèle : la guerre du peuple: deux mois sous la terre , cowritten with
Joris Ivens , Paris, les
Éditeurs français réunis , 1969 (44 illustrations)
Ma vie balagan , story written with journalist Élisabeth D. Inandiak,
Robert Laffont , 2008
ISBN
978-2-221-10658-7
Et tu n'es pas revenu , story written with
Judith Perrignon ,
Grasset , 2015
ISBN
978-2-246-85391-6
L'amour après , story written with Judith Perrignon, Grasset, 2018, 162 p.
References
^
Article by Andrew Goldstein in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
^
Filmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies
^
Publishers Weekly
^
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
^ Steven Erlanger.
"Jewish Deportee on Persecution, Past and Present" , The New York Times , 1 January 2016.
^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
^ Klarsfeld, 1978.
^ Plus tard, elles deviennent amies.
Catherine Durand. «Marceline Loridan-Ivens : "Simone Veil, ma jumelle contradictoire»" , Marie Claire ; accessed 21 September 2018.
^
"Marceline Loridan-Ivens – III du 18 avril 2012 – France Inter" . www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2020 .
^ Loridan, Marceline (2008). Laffont (ed.). Ma vie balagan (in French). Laffont. p. 171.
ISBN
9782221106587 .
OCLC
262426758 . .
^
« La clé des camps » , Libération, 11 November 2003.
^
a
b
c Jacqueline Remy, "La vie est belle",
Vanity Fair , April 2018, pages 78–85.
^
« Marceline la tornade » , Le Monde, 25 July 2005.
^
CANNES CLASSICS – « Joris Ivens et Marceline Loridan, regards sur la Chine en mutation » , 21 May 2014.
^
Marceline Loridan a filmé la Chine de Mao « Je fus dupée par mon époque »
Archived 8 January 2015 at the
Wayback Machine , Rue89, 15 June 2014.
^
"National Jewish Book Award | Book awards | LibraryThing" . www.librarything.com . Retrieved 18 January 2020 .
Sources
Serge Klarsfeld , Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France , Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, 1978; New Edition: Association des Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (FFDJF), 2012
External links
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