HIDDEN CHILDREN AND DEPORTATION
January 8 to 12, 2008
Tribute to Odette ABADI (co-founder of the Marcel network, former deportee, former school doctor of the Cours Morvan)
6 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
Avenir des Jeunes Sourds (ADJS)
Les Enfants et Amis Abadi, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation, Commission Dora-Ellrich et Kommandos
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TOWN HALL OF THE 9th ARRONDISSEMENT
Exhibitions (January 8 to 12)
Le Réseau Marcel, panels and film
Film by Maria Landau and Jacqueline Sigaar, directed by the latter and produced by Viviane Dahan (Les Productrices), 52 minutes.
This documentary tells of the action of Odette and Moussa Abadi who, with the help of the Bishop of Nice, Monseigneur Rémond, saved 527 Jewish children in the Alpes-Maritimes between 1943 and 1945 from deportation and certain death, by organising hiding places for them.
Deportation, panels and documents
Aux amis qui nous ont manqué (To friends we have missed), canvases by J.-M. Cerino
In this series, the artist seeks simply to be a witness and tries to convey, in his own singular medium, the company of those essential contemporaries who are the deportees – Jews or goyim, dead or alive – and to show their elusive presence: white, tone on tone, is for him the colour of withdrawal and moral reserve.
Play (January 10 at 2.30 p.m. and January 11 at 8 p.m.)
De l’Enfer à la Lune (From Hell to the Moon), by J.-P. Thiercelin (Cie Map)
Dora, “this camp of secret weapons was deliberately ‘forgotten’ so that 25,000 dead would not cast a shadow over the career of Wernher von Braun, who became a hero of the American conquest of space. How else can one tell the unspeakable? No doubt by starting from a childhood memory – a Christmas tree that becomes the fir tree planted on the Dora roll-call square on December 24, 1944, a little wooden train, an ordinary toy, that carries the last convoy of deportees to Germany. The tone is set: the children draw the adults into their game, which will recreate history.”
Booking required, Commission Dora-Ellrich, tel.: 01 47 05 27 30, e-mail: memoiredora@yahoo.fr
Drama workshop of the Cours Morvan (Cie Ombelle), January 11, 5.30 p.m.
Screening of Le Réseau Marcel in the Salle Rossini, January 12, 2.30–3.30 p.m.
Round table: “How and what should we pass on today?” Saturday, January 12, 4–6 p.m.
Witnesses and artists: Andrée Poch-Karsenti, Jeannette Dreyfuss, Bernard d’Astorg, Bertrand Herz, Stéphane Hessel, Jean-Pierre Thiercelin. Chaired by Jean-Marc Cerino and Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat. Summing-up by Stéphane Hessel, Ambassador of France. Book signings.
Free admission, subject to available places
The whole programme is free. Donations towards the costs of the week can be sent by cheque payable to ADJS (6 rue de Varize, 75016 Paris).
For deaf visitors: subtitles, surtitles, interpreting and speech-to-text
Free or guided visits (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
Booking required for school groups (between November 15 and December 21).
Information: Cours Morvan 01 48 74 10 09 and Avenir Des Jeunes Sourds: adjs@orange.f