Commemoration, remembrance, a journey of memory….

October 1, 2014

Report on the annual commemoration for Odette and Moussa Abadi, September 19, 2014

There were… fifteen of us, perhaps twenty (when you love, you don’t count), with Daniel Farhi officiating around the grave of Odette and Moussa on Friday, September 19, 2014.

Unlike last year, the sun was shining and it was even hot. A warmth that spread among the participants. No sadness; an almost drawing-room conversation in which memories were strung together like anecdotes, in which everyone seemed linked to their neighbour by the invisible threads of a family of siblings; beyond their deaths, beyond the fact that many of us had not known them, this feeling of shared belonging, of complicity, was in the air.

Daniel Farhi sang the El Malei Rachamim, and this year again we met across the road… at “Papa’s” for a friendly drink.