Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Marceline Loridan-Ivens (right) and Joris Ivens with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Born
Marceline Rozenberg

(1928-03-19)19 March 1928
Épinal, France
Died18 September 2018(2018-09-18) (aged 90)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Writer and filmmaker
Years active1962–2014
SpouseJoris 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

References

  1. ^ Article by Andrew Goldstein in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  2. ^ Filmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies
  3. ^ Publishers Weekly
  4. ^ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
  5. ^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
  6. ^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
  7. ^ Steven Erlanger. "Jewish Deportee on Persecution, Past and Present", The New York Times, 1 January 2016.
  8. ^ Klarsfeld, 2012.
  9. ^ Klarsfeld, 1978.
  10. ^ Plus tard, elles deviennent amies. Catherine Durand. «Marceline Loridan-Ivens : "Simone Veil, ma jumelle contradictoire»", Marie Claire; accessed 21 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Marceline Loridan-Ivens – III du 18 avril 2012 – France Inter". www.franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  12. ^ Loridan, Marceline (2008). Laffont (ed.). Ma vie balagan (in French). Laffont. p. 171. ISBN 9782221106587. OCLC 262426758..
  13. ^ « La clé des camps », Libération, 11 November 2003.
  14. ^ a b c Jacqueline Remy, "La vie est belle", Vanity Fair, April 2018, pages 78–85.
  15. ^ « Marceline la tornade », Le Monde, 25 July 2005.
  16. ^ CANNES CLASSICS – « Joris Ivens et Marceline Loridan, regards sur la Chine en mutation », 21 May 2014.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ "National Jewish Book Award | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 18 January 2020.

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