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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : Faber & Faber, 2017.Description: 100 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780571328024 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Et tu n'es pas revenu. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.5318092 23
LOC classification:
  • D804.3
Summary: Marceline Loridan-Ivens was just 15 when she and her father were arrested and sent to concentration camps. He prepared her for the worst, telling her that he would not return. The three kilometres between her father in Auschwitz and herself in Birkenau were an insurmountable distance, and yet he managed to send her a small note via an electrician in the camp - a sign of life. Here, Marceline writes a letter to the father she would never know as an adult, and the man whose death enveloped her whole life. Her testimony is a haunting and challenging reminder of one of the worst crimes humanity has ever seen, and an affecting personal story of a woman whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 940.53 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 17/05/2024 R15277J0499

This translation originally published: New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens was just 15 when she and her father were arrested and sent to concentration camps. He prepared her for the worst, telling her that he would not return. The three kilometres between her father in Auschwitz and herself in Birkenau were an insurmountable distance, and yet he managed to send her a small note via an electrician in the camp - a sign of life. Here, Marceline writes a letter to the father she would never know as an adult, and the man whose death enveloped her whole life. Her testimony is a haunting and challenging reminder of one of the worst crimes humanity has ever seen, and an affecting personal story of a woman whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt.

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