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The Marcel network : how one French couple saved 527 children from the Holocaust / Fred Coleman.

Title
The Marcel network : how one French couple saved 527 children from the Holocaust / Fred Coleman.
Author
Coleman, Fred
Publication
Dulles, Va. : Potomac Books, c2013.

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Description
viii, 230 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Moussa Abadi and Odette Rosenstock, after becoming trapped in Nazi-occupied Paris, formed the Marcel Network, which was able to shelter over five hundred Jewish children in Catholic schools and convents and with Protestant families during World War II.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Abadi, Moussa
  • Abadi, Odette, 1914-
  • Abadi, Odette, 1914-1999
  • 1939-1945
  • Jews > Nice > Biography
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust > Nice
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Children
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Rescue > Nice
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Nice
  • Nice (France) > Ethnic relations
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Children -- Moussa and Odette -- The bishop -- The pastors -- Zazou -- The Germans -- Same child, new identity -- Three girls -- The convent -- Boys -- Switzerland -- Close calls -- Odette arrested -- Moussa alone -- Auschwitz -- Bergen-Belsen -- Liberation -- Reunions -- Depression -- Discreet -- Drama -- The couple -- Revelations.
ISBN
  • 9781612345116 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1612345115 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781612345123 (electronic)
  • 1612345123 (electronic)
LCCN
^^2012031568
OCLC
  • 795759577
  • SCSB-12819564
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library