News 2011
14th International Festival of Films on the Resistance
November 14 to 19, 2011
The 14th International Festival of Films on the Resistance, organised by the Resistance Museum in Nice, took place on the Côte d’Azur from November 14 to 19, 2011.
Invited by its President, Mr Panicacci, I had the pleasure of seeing Le Réseau Marcel shown at the official opening of the festival, and of seeing those two young people, Odette Rosenstock and Moussa Abadi, creators of the network for rescuing Jewish children in the Alpes-Maritimes, honoured.
Plaques put up at the Pierre Brossolette primary school in Noisy-le-Sec
May 3, 2011
Despite extensive research, and in the absence of registers that have disappeared, Jeannette found only the names of two little girls deported on December 7, 1943 on convoy no. 64: Paulette and Suzanne Itic. On her initiative, Monsieur Philippe Jacqueline, head of the Pierre Brossolette primary school, agreed that plaques should be put up on the walls of the school, and the teachers of the three top-year primary classes and their pupils took part in an official ceremony on May 3, 2011. A plaque bearing the names of the little Itic girls was put up inside the school and unveiled by Madame Medina, a member of the AMEJD, accompanied by three children.
The Medal of the Righteous awarded to Hélène and Pierre Gagnier
March 27, 2011
In September 1943, Odette Rosenstock and Moussa Abadi decided to create a network to rescue children in Nice. To help them in this extraordinary adventure, men and women of faith and conviction, refusing the unspeakable, lent their help at the risk of their lives. For this, the State of Israel awarded them the Righteous medal. Missing from this list (which you will find here) were Pastor Pierre Gagnier and his wife Hélène Gagnier, née Aubanel.
La Reine et le Calligraphe translated into Arabic
January 25, 2011
A few years ago, Moussa Abadi’s masterpiece La Reine et le Calligraphe was translated into Hebrew.
Thumbing its nose at geopolitics, La Reine et le Calligraphe is now being published in Arabic.