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Les Enfants et Amis AbadiPreserving the memory of Odette and Moussa Abadi and keeping alive the memory of the Shoah

Odette and Moussa ABADI in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, by Jeannette Wolgust

April 2009

Odette and Moussa ABADI in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, by Jeannette Wolgust

Anna Lecoeur, a French teacher at the Lycée Paul Héroult in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, organised a week on memory and citizenship.

At her invitation, Jeannette Wolgust spent four days there telling the story of Odette and Moussa between 1943 and 1944 (after a screening of the film “Le Réseau Marcel”).

It was intense, in this general and vocational lycée where few people knew about the Marcel network and the story of the hidden children.

The evening session for adults ended after half past midnight.

Mr Jacques Boutou, head of the lycée, made possible a fruitful dialogue between us and the audience.