News 2012
“The Marcel Network” by Fred Coleman selected in the United States by the “Book of the Month Club” for January 2013
November 29, 2012
The book on the Marcel network has just been published in the United States by Potomac Books. On this occasion, the famous “Book of the Month Club” selected it for January 2013.
The Book of the Month Club (founded in the United States in 1926) is a mail-order book service offering its customers a new book every month. The Book of the Month Club is known for being very selective in its choice of books.
Robert Pouderou presents his new book
September 27, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 7 p.m.
at L’Harmattan
13 rue de l’École Polytechnique
75005 Paris
L’ennemi de la mort (The enemy of death)
A play
based on the novel of the same name by Eugène Le Roy
The marshes of the Double (a forest in the Périgord) in the 19th century.
These marshes give the peasants dangerous fevers. They must be drained, and that is the mission Doctor Charbonnière has set himself. But he comes up against the indifference of the owners of the marshes and, paradoxically, the hostility of those who are their victims.
L’ennemi de la mort tells the story of Charbonnière’s dignified and solitary struggle and the painful failure of a man who was right too soon; in the background, he also lives through another tragedy: religious intolerance and the clash between Catholics and Protestants.
Robert Pouderou has written 70 plays that have been performed in Paris, in the French regions and abroad; some have been broadcast on Radio France and Swiss French-language radio (SACD prize 2002). He is also a screenwriter, novelist and theatre director, and the founder in 1994 of “La mémoire des humbles” (18th edition in 2012). In 2011 he published La Sanseverina with Orizons.
Commemoration for Odette and Moussa Abadi
September 11, 2012
It was raining, but the weather was still mild at Montparnasse cemetery on Tuesday, September 11. A circle of some fifteen umbrellas – children and friends – surrounded the grave of Odette and Moussa, to whom we were paying tribute that day, with Daniel Farhi in the centre.
Simon Eine – Des étoiles plein les poches
July 15, 2012
A few months ago, a new “child” joined the Abadi siblings: Simon Eine.
He has just published a book, “Des étoiles plein les poches” (Pockets full of stars), in which he tells with verve his fascinating memories as an actor and director and a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française. It is with great restraint and much emotion that he recalls his childhood and his experience as a hidden child.
Happy reading!
The Marcel Network published in the United States
October 2012
The book on the Marcel network will be published in the United States in October 2012 by Potomac Books and will be available in France on Amazon.
The Marcel network in Carrières-sous-Poissy
April 29, 2012
On Sunday, April 29 in Carrières-sous-Poissy, the day of remembrance of the deportation was marked by the display of the panels on the Marcel network. Organised by Monsieur Anthony Faure, head of the cultural affairs department, the event continued on Thursday, May 3 with my talks in two of the town’s schools.
Talk at the Collège La Source in Meudon – told by the pupils
April 2012
We usually report on this website every talk given in the schools that open their doors to us. For once, there will be no report of this talk at the Collège La Source in Meudon: instead, we hand over to those who experienced the encounter – the pupils.
Talk at the Collège J.-P. Vernant in Toulouse
March 7, 2012
On March 7, 2012, at the Collège J.-P. Vernant in Toulouse, the subject was memory, passing it on, handing over the baton.
At the invitation of Madame Alonzo, the head of the school, Éric Gagnier, father of Geoffrey, a Year 10 pupil, spoke about the award of the Righteous medal to his grandparents, Hélène and Pierre Gagnier.
Death of Laurent Wolgust
March 10, 2012
Very sad news…
Saturday, March 10, 2012: it is with immense sorrow that I inform you of the death this morning of my friend Laurent Wolgust.
For those in the Paris region who are able to attend, his funeral will take place on:
Tuesday, March 13 at 11 a.m.
at the new cemetery of Noisy-le-Sec, rue La Fontaine.
Andrée Poch-Karsenti
Presentation of the Righteous medal to Pastor Pierre Gagnier and his wife Hélène
January 18, 2012
A few days before the commemorations of the Deportation, Madame Blumenthal opened the doors of the reception room of her town hall to us for a ceremony linking us to the past and to memory. Yad Vashem, represented by Monsieur Victor Kuperminc, and Monsieur Elad Ratson, a diplomat from the Embassy of Israel, posthumously awarded the Righteous medal to Pastor Pierre Gagnier and his wife Hélène.
In the presence of:
Michèle Blumenthal
Mayor of the 12th arrondissement of ParisThe French Committee for Yad Vashem
represented by its delegate Victor KupermincThe association “Les Enfants et Amis Abadi”
represented by its president Andrée Poch-Karsenti
A diplomat from the Embassy of Israel in France will present the medal and diploma awarded to the Righteous Among the Nations,
posthumously, to the heirs of
PIERRE & HÉLÈNE GAGNIER
On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 5.30 p.m.
Town hall of the 12th arrondissement – 130 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris