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

[2] At the beginning of World War II, her family settled in Vaucluse,[2] where she joined the French Resistance.

She and her father, Szlama, were captured by the Gestapo[2][3] and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by Convoy 71 on 13 April 1944,[2] along with Simone Veil[4][5] and Anne-Lise Stern, then to Bergen-Belsen, and eventually to Theresienstadt.

[6] She met figures such as Henri Lefebvre and Edgar Morin,[7] worked in the reprographic service of a polling institute, was bag carrier for the Algerian National Liberation Front, and frequented Saint-Germain-des-Prés[8] In 1961, Edgar Morin cast her in the film Chronique d'un été, thus making her film debut.

[8] Loridan-Ivens' memoir But You Did Not Come Back (Et tu n'es pas revenu; published 2015), co-written with Judith Perrignon, details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau.