Auschwitz survivor Loridan-Ivens died

Auschwitz survivor Loridan-Ivens died

World September 19, 2018 08:32

paris - The French filmmaker and writer Marceline Loridan-Ivens died on Tuesday at the age of ninety. Her second husband was the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989). The death of Loridan is according to French media published by Jean Veil, the son of her best friend, the now deceased former minister Simone Veil.

Loridan is best known for her testimonies about the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she was transported to the Nazis at the beginning of 1944 as a fifteen-year-old girl. Loridan met Simone Veil (1927-2017) there. Veil became later as a lawyer, minister, president of the European Parliament and first president of the Shoah Remembrance Foundation one of the most famous French who continued to showcase the horrors in Auschwitz. Loridan has also done her life.

The French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted about her death that 'her testimony and life lesson' should not be forgotten.

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