Marceline Loridan Ivens

Director | Writer | Actress

Date of birth : 03/19/1928

Date of death : 09/18/2018

City of birth : Epinal, Vosges, Lorraine, France

Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Marceline Rosenberg) is an Holocaust survivor. She survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. In WWII she was part of the Résistance. She was captured by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 13, 1944 (she was then 16 years old). She was sent after to Bergen-Belsen and to Theresienstadt. She was liberated on May 10, 1945. On 1963 she married Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens (30 years her senior).