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Book of the Week: But You Did Not Come Back

Sara Kestelman

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Penny Leicester

Elizabeth Allard

Book of the Week: But You Did Not Come Back: Episode 4: Living with the Past

But You Did Not Come Back

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Episode 4: Living with the Past

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Marceline Loridan-Ivens reflects on life after the death camps in her searing memoir.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens reflects on life after the death camps and how the horror has haunted her adult life.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens's searingly honest memoir about surviving the Holocaust is written in the form of a letter to her father who did not survive the concentration camps. In today's episode she reflects on how the loss of her father and the horrors she experienced and witnessed as a fifteeen year old have shaped her adult life. 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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