Reseau Marcel
- Abadi network
Dates of Existence
1943/1944
History
The Marcel network was a rescue mission operating in France, Nice, that between 1943 and 1944 saved 527 Jewish children ranging in age from newborns to teenagers. The network was organized by Moussa Abadi, a Syrian Jew from Damascus, who had been studying in France since 1928, and his French Jewish girlfriend, Odette Rosenstock.
Places
Founded and active in France, Nice.
Sources
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org