Marceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she and her father was arrested and sernt to concentration camps. He prepared her for the worst, telling her that he would not return. The three kilometres between her father in Auschwitz and herself in Birkenau were an insurmountable distance and yet he managed to send her a small note via an electrician in the camp, a sign of life. A runaway bestseller in France, this is a breathtaking, deeply moving and critically acclaimed memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust.