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Book of the Week: But You Did Not Come Back

Sara Kestelman

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Penny Leicester

Elizabeth Allard

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Marceline recalls the return home from the concentration camps without her beloved father.

Marceline recalls the return home from the concentration camps without her beloved father and tells how memories of the horror have haunted her.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens's searingly honest memoir is about how she survived the Holocaust and is written as a letter to her father who did not survive the horrors and who she would never know as an adult. In today's episode she recalls the return home from the concentration camps without her beloved father, and tells how her memories of the horrors she experienced in the concentration camps have haunted her. Sara Kestelman reads.

Translated by Sandra Smith
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Searingly honest memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens about surviving the Holocaust.

Searingly honest memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens about surviving the Holocaust, written as an intimate letter to her lost father. Read by Sara Kestelman

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