Auschwitz-Birkenau
Deported with her father to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Marceline Loridan-Ivens survived, but he did not. She recalls the horror and the loss that shaped her life. Sara Kestelman reads.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens searingly honest memoir is written as an intimate letter to her lost father. In 1944 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.
The actress, screenwriter and director Marceline Loridan-Ivens was born in 1928 and lives in Paris.
Read by Sara Kestelman
Translated by Sandra Smith
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
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| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Sara Kestelman |
| Author | Marceline Loridan-Ivens |
| Abridger | Penny Leicester |
| Producer | Elizabeth Allard |
Broadcasts
- Mon 21 Mar 201609:45BBC Radio 4 FM
- Tue 22 Mar 201600:30BBC Radio 4
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