News 2009
Robert Pouderou on France Inter
December 20, 2009
On Sunday, December 20 at 1.30 a.m., a play by Robert Pouderou will be broadcast on FRANCE INTER in the programme “Au fil de l’Histoire”.
Signing of Robert Pouderou’s book
December 15, 2009
Les Éditions L’Harmattan and the author Robert POUDEROU are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book Pendant que vous dormiez.
On December 15, 2009 at 6.30 p.m., at the Espace Harmattan, 21 bis rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris (Métro Maubert-Mutualité, line 10).
Exhibition “Hidden children” at the library in Saint-Martin-d’Auxigny (Cher)
November 6, 2009
On the initiative of Joseph Szteinsznaider, an Abadi child, the library of Saint-Martin-d’Auxigny (Cher), where he and his wife Liliane are volunteers, is organising an exhibition on the theme “Hidden children”.
Death of René Dupuy
August 1, 2009
René Dupuy, a very dear friend of Odette and Moussa, died on August 1, 2009.
René Dupuy, born in New York on May 17, 1920, was a French actor, director and theatre manager. He studied at the Conservatoire national d’art dramatique in Paris.
He ran:
the Théâtre Gramont from 1954 to 1973
the Théâtre de l’Athénée from 1966 to 1972
the Théâtre Fontaine from 1972 to 1985
He also taught drama at the École de la rue Blanche.
Theatre and Resistance: Depersonalisation & Identity
June 22, 2009
Thanks to the unshakeable determination of Andrée Poch-Karsenti, President of the Enfants et Amis Abadi, and to the friendly help of Micheline and Lucien Attoun, directors of the Théâtre Ouvert in Paris, a conference was held on June 22 on the theme “Theatre and resistance, Odette and Moussa Abadi, depersonalisation and identity”. It was a real success!
Les Enfants et Amis Abadi on Radio J
June 17, 2009
On June 17, 2009, Andrée Poch-Karsenti and Victor and Marthe Kuperminc recorded a programme on Radio J. The writer Marc-André Charguéraud took part in the first half of the programme.
Odette and Moussa ABADI in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
April 2009
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…
Visit to Vouziers
January 5 to 17, 2009
There is a sub-prefecture, Vouziers in Champagne-Ardenne, a small town of 5,047 inhabitants, that has decided to keep traces of the past by paying tribute to the deported Jews of the town.
The association “Les Tourelles”, in partnership with the association “C’est arrivé près de chez vous”, organised an exhibition.
In memory of the 60 children of the 12th
November 13, 2008
Time flies so fast… An event that took place on November 13, 2008, which we are only reporting today.
That hardly matters, however, for memory remains alive to recall the three hundred and fifty children who lived in the twelfth arrondissement and were destroyed by the Vichy laws. Sixty of them were not yet at school; the youngest was six days old.
AMEJDAM: official day of commemoration of the victims of the Shoah
January 2009
For the official day of commemoration of the victims of the Shoah, AMEJDAM is organising ceremonies in front of some of the plaques put up in the Alpes-Maritimes:
Tuesday, January 27 in Nice, in front of the plaque at the Lycée du Parc Impérial at 10.30 a.m., and at the Lycée Calmette at 2.30 p.m.
Thursday, January 29 in Cannes, at the Collège Capron, at 11 a.m.
Friday, January 30 at the École Saint-Pierre d’Arène, Nice.
During these ceremonies, the film “Le réseau Marcel” will be shown in the schools, followed by testimony from former deportees and hidden children living in Nice and Cannes.