French filmmaker and writer Marceline Loridan-Ivens, "who explored the long-term anguish of surviving Nazi death camps and challenged her compatriots about their attitudes toward Jews," died September 18, the New York Times reported. She was 90. Loridan-Ivens was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and one of her last books, But You Did Not Come Back, "is written as a letter to her father, Szlhama Froim Rozenberg, with whom she was deported and who died at Auschwitz."
On her return to France after the war, she "spent the next several years in Paris immersed in the Left Bank intellectual milieu of the 1950s, coming to know the semiotician and philosopher Roland Barthes and the philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin," the Times wrote, adding that she typed manuscripts for Barthes and acted in several films.
In 1993, four years after the death of her second husband, Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens, she began work on the film La Petite Prairie aux Bouleaux (The Birch-Tree Meadow), which told a part of her own story and was released in 2003. She went on to write about her Holocaust experience in three books--two co-written with journalist Judith Perrignon--including L'Amour Aprés (Love Afterwards), which was published this year.