Bibliograph

But you did not come back, Marceline Loridan-Ivens ; with Judith Perrignon ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith

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But you did not come back, Marceline Loridan-Ivens ; with Judith Perrignon ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

But you did not come back

Oclc number

969394900

Responsibility statement

Marceline Loridan-Ivens ; with Judith Perrignon ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith

Summary

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

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