9 Quotes by Marceline Loridan-Ivens

...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.

Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.

If you only knew, all of you, how the camp remains in all our minds, and will until we die.

We ended up in the Pilsen repatriation camp. There, one of the employees said: “We don’t repatriate Jews, just prisoners of war.” The prisoners stood up for us, refused to leave without us.

We knew the Nazis had lost, but it was too late, much too late to rejoice, our suffering had been too great, all we had left was a feeling of horror and loss.

I had nothing to hold on to anymore. My memory had to shatter, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to go on living.

...our history, the history of European Jews...they will never forgive us for the evil they've done to us

I was your darling little girl. Even at fifteen. At any age. I had so little time to save enough of you within me.

Still today, whenever I hear the word “Papa,” I’m startled, even seventy five years later, even when it is spoken by someone I don’t know. That word disappeared from my life so early that it hurts, and I can only say it deep in my heart, never out loud.