News 2021
Commemoration for Odette and Moussa 2021
October 2, 2020
Once again this year, we will gather around Odette and Moussa to honour their memory and that of their work. The commemoration will be held on Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 11.30 a.m. at Montparnasse cemetery. This moment of remembrance is open to all, and we would be happy to see many of you there.
We will meet at 11.15 a.m. at the corner of the rue Froidevaux and the rue Émile-Richard.
The ceremony will begin at 11.30 a.m. at Odette and Moussa’s grave (Division no. 30, line 14 south, grave 12 (See the map)
Death of Daniel Farhi
August 23, 2021
Shaken and saddened by the death of Daniel Farhi, Les Enfants et Amis Abadi wish to pay tribute to him through the voices of all their members.
Daniel Farhi was also a friend of that wonderful couple, Odette and Moussa Abadi, whom he married in a religious ceremony in 1989.
Once the ordeals of the war were behind them, Odette and Moussa were married in a civil ceremony on November 3, 1959 in Paris, at the town hall of the 12th.
Victor KUPERMINC (
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July 19, 2021
Victor Kuperminc is not, strictly speaking, a hidden child. But he is a Friend of the Abadis and has always been our association’s treasurer; above all, he shares his life with Marthe, who was a hidden child and has already told her story in our collection “Histoires du Réseau Marcel”. Victor’s story during the occupation is nonetheless exceptional too.
We went to record Victor at his home, and it is with great emotion that he shares his story with us today.
Unveiling of the commemorative plaque in tribute to Liliane KLEIN-LIEBER
June 28, 2021
The commemorative plaque in tribute to Madame Liliane KLEIN-LIEBER will be unveiled on
Monday, July 5 at 1.45 p.m.
on the front of the building at 8 square Moncey, Paris 9th (Liège station, metro line 13, or bus 21).
Spread the word and do come along.
For organisational reasons, please confirm your attendance to: confirmations.protocole@paris.fr
Meeting at the Romainville primary school (Paris 19th)
June 2, 2021
Do you know the primary school in rue de Romainville in Paris 19th? It is a school that one would like to be the rule rather than the exception, so passionately, enthusiastically and professionally does its head teacher, Madame Gonzalez, approach her work.
I was asked to give my testimony, and it was again (yes, for the second time) wearing my two hats – LICRA and Abadi Child – that I went to the school on May 10, 2021 to talk about Odette and Moussa Abadi. I met two final-year primary classes, those of Mrs Vanessa Lucas and Mr Dimitri Schlesinger. I was accompanied by Hélène Bougniol, head of the Education Commission for the Île-de-France region, and by Audrey, also from LICRA.
Shoah Generations Forum 2021: 3rd workshop – Returned objects
May 26, 2021
The organising committee invites you to take part in the Shoah Generations Forum on Zoom, on the theme of returned objects, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 6 p.m.
We have so much to say and show about these special objects, survivors of a vanished world, that we have decided to give them a voice once again. Objects of memory, of history or of museums, they are part of our daily lives, and yet they are different. They carry within them the memory of the Shoah, a memory we cannot shake off.
The main theme of this third workshop will be objects, previously unknown in our families, that we have found again. They are charged with our parents’ history, and we are now their custodians. To talk about them, witnesses representing four generations will speak, accompanied by the Judaeo-Spanish songs of Sandra Bessis.
Funding and opening of a Centre commemorating Jewish Rescuers
April 5, 2021
In 2020, Odette and Moussa Abadi received the “Jewish Rescuer Citation” (read the article) from the Committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust.
For more than 20 years the committee has been working to honour Jews who put their lives in danger to save other Jews. In collaboration with the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem, the Jewish Rescuer Citation has been awarded to more than 350 rescuers for their inspiring actions. These heroic acts are still not well enough known to the public around the world, or even in Israel.
The committee is pleased to announce its next major project: the creation of a centre commemorating the legacy of the rescuers.
Beit Project – days of November 9 and 12, 2020
March 11, 2021
On Thursday, March 18 at 6 p.m., the Beit Project will present its Paris 2020 project online. The direct link to join the presentation:
(open access, no need to be registered on Facebook)
Presentation by Andrée Poch-Karsenti
The Beit Project? It is a European project: “the concept is to set up a ‘nomadic classroom’ in a place rich in traces of the past, recent or distant. For two days per group, pupils from two very different schools get to know each other and learn to work together. Around an ephemeral, nomadic school, they make a neighbourhood their own, working on traces of the past, social issues and video-making. The key idea of the project is to use the city and its history to debate the major contemporary issues of living together and fighting discrimination, in order to build a common future. It aims to make young people aware of plurality and cultural diversity through discovering and interpreting heritage sites linked to the history, distant or recent, of their city.”
Geneviève de Gaulle on Odette
February 27, 2021
The Association still holds many files about Odette and, above all, Moussa, which we have yet to explore. 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 pleased to add to the various testimonies about this couple of Resisters.
Stories of the Marcel network: Eve Schmidt
February 3, 2020
A new testimony has been added to the collection “Stories of the Marcel network”: Eve’s.
Eve and her brother Armand were hidden in an orphanage near Cannes. Eve tells their story and the love of the family who saved them.
RMC Découverte: “Nice sous l’Occupation” (Nice under the Occupation)
January 16, 2021
Documentary broadcast on Sunday, January 24 at 9 p.m. on RMC Découverte (channel 24 on French digital terrestrial TV).
During the Second World War, Nice was one of the few French cities to experience a history in three phases, full of twists and turns, with two successive occupations. Initially in the free zone, the city at first fervently embraced the ideology of the Vichy regime. But in 1942 the city of Nice, Mussolini’s main target, was invaded by its neighbour from across the Alps.
While preparing this documentary, the director Cécile Bonneau contacted us. We were pleased to pass on to her the information we hold about the history of the Marcel network and its protagonists.
Don’t miss it!
Shoah Generations Forum 2020: 2nd workshop
January 16, 2021
While waiting for the Forum… Workshop no. 2: the “surviving” objects that are dear to us.
Because of the health situation, the 2nd Shoah Generations Forum has been postponed to November 2021.
In the meantime, the Mémorial de la Shoah is pleased to invite you to the 2nd workshop “WHILE WAITING FOR THE FORUM” on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 6 p.m. on Zoom.
The Forum’s first event, on November 24, was a success. More than 260 participants attended the presentation of objects that survived the Shoah and listened with emotion to the musical interludes by the group Josef Josef. The Forum’s organising committee is offering a second event on the theme: The “surviving” objects that are dear to us.
On the programme: the presentation of four new objects, witnesses to family histories, presented by several generations of the Shoah, including the 3rd and 4th generations.