Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Rozenberg; 19 March 1928[1] – 18 September 2018[2]) was a French writer and film director.

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.

[12] She met figures such as Henri Lefebvre and Edgar Morin,[13] 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.

[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.