A runaway best-seller in France, But You Did Not Come Back is the deeply moving
memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust. 'I was quite a cheerful person, you know,
in spite of what happened to us.' In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Lor
idan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sen
t to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland.
When they arrived, they were forcibly sepa
rated. Though he managed to smuggle a last note to her via an electrician, she n
ever spoke to him again. But You Did Not Come Back is Marceline's letter to the
father she would never know as an adult, to the man whose death has enveloped he
r life.
