Who was in Auschwitz, Irène Némirovsky or Archibald MacLeish?
Irène Némirovsky
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the Modernist school of poetry.
 MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University.
 He enlisted in and saw action during World War One, and lived in Paris in the 1920s.
 On returning to the US, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine "Fortune" from 1929 to 1938.
 For five years MacLeish was Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 From 1949 to 1962, MacLeish was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.
 MacLeish was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky (] ; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship.
 Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died at Auschwitz at the age of 39.
 Successful in her day, she is now best known for the posthumously published "Suite française.
J.B. (play)
J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish and is a modern retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job – hence the title: J.B./Job.
 The play went through several incarnations before it was finally published.
 MacLeish began the work in 1953 as a one-act production but within three years had expanded it to a full three-act manuscript. Le Vin de solitude
Le Vin de solitude, published in English as The Wine of Solitude, is a novel by Russian Jewish author Irène Némirovsky (1903 – 1942), who died in the Holocaust.
 It is considered to be partly autobiographical and tells the story of the protagonist, Hélène Karol, who shares much of Némirovsky's early history.
 "Le Vin de solitude" was originally published in France in 1935.
 Following the success of Némirovsky's posthumously published work "Suite Française" in 2004, it was translated and published in English in 2011. David Golder
David Golder is writer Irène Némirovsky's first novel.
 It was re-issued in 2004 following the popularity of the Suite Française notebooks discovered in 1998.
 "David Golder" was first published in France in 1929 and won instant acclaim for the 26-year-old author. Pithiviers internment camp
Pithiviers internment camp was a Nazi transit camp in Pithiviers, France during the Second World War.
 Children were separated there from their parents; the adults were processed and deported to concentration camps farther away, usually Auschwitz.
 This was the fate of the novelist Irène Némirovsky. Roderick MacLeish
Roderick MacLeish (January 15, 1926 – July 1, 2006) was an American journalist and writer.
 Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he grew up in the Chicago suburbs and graduated from the University of Chicago.
 MacLeish was news director for WBZ radio in Boston in the early 1950s, then helped start the London and Washington, DC, bureaus of Westinghouse Broadcasting, where he was a chief commentator.
 He later was a commentator for CBS News, National Public Radio, and "The Christian Science Monitor".
 His published books include both nonfiction and fiction.
 MacLeish was the nephew of poet Archibald MacLeish.
 He died in Washington, DC, at the age of 80. Suite française (Némirovsky novel)
Suite française (] , "French Suite") is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin.
 In July 1942, having just completed the first two of the series, Némirovsky was arrested as a Jew and detained at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz, where she was murdered, a victim of the Holocaust.
 The notebook containing the two novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998.
 They were published in a single volume entitled "Suite française" in 2004. David Golder (film)
David Golder is a 1931 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur, Paule Andral and Jackie Monnier.
 It is an adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's 1929 novel "David Golder", about a self-made Jewish businessman. Suite Française (film)
Suite Française is a 2015 British-French-Belgian romantic World War II drama film directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman.
 It is based on the second part of Irène Némirovsky's 2004 novel of the same name.
 The film stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson and Margot Robbie.
 It concerns a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France.
 "Suite Française" was filmed on location in France and Belgium.
 It was released theatrically in the UK on 13 March 2015 and will premiere in the US through Lifetime cable network on 22 May 2017.