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

Geneviève de Gaulle on Odette

February 27, 2021

The Association still holds many files concerning Odette and above all Moussa, which we have yet to explore. So it was that, tucked between two pages of a film synopsis written by Moussa, we have just found this text by Madame Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, which we are happy to add to the various testimonies about this couple of Resistance fighters.

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[...] Not only to remember the crimes, for we must give warning, but the fight against injustice.
Such is the honour of living. This answer, which is greater than each of us, which is worth risking everything and suffering everything for. Odette and Moussa gave life to 527 Jewish children. Their example teaches us not to despair of the human condition.

Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz