Marceline Loridan Ivens

Marceline Loridan Ivens was born on Mar 19, 1928 in France. Marceline Loridan Ivens's big-screen debut came with Algérie, année zéro directed by Marceline Loridan Ivens in 1965.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Marceline Rosenberg) was an Holocaust survivor. She was born in France, the daughter of Polish Jewish parents who emigrated to France in 1919. She survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. In WWII she was part of the Résistance. She was captured by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau (in the same transport than Simone Veil) on April 13, 1944 (she was then 16 years old). She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and to Theresienstadt. She was liberated on May 10, 1945.In 1963 she married Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. They remained married until his death.