2/11/2023 0 Comments Places to write stories privately![]() While a group of pedestrians looked on, the woman’s young son screamed “Mama, Mama, Mama!” An incredulous Moussa asked a man in the crowd what had happened. One radiant morning as Moussa strolled the avenue along the beach in Nice he saw a woman on the ground bleeding to death, her head crushed by a French police officer’s boot. Yet it wasn’t long before the terror reached down to Nice. Moussa’s future wife, Odette, a medical doctor, became Sylvie Delattre. Safe in the city of Nice, Moussa, a stage actor, chose Marcel as his new name. Led by a French Jewish couple named Moussa Abadi and Odette Rosenstock, it saved 527 Jewish children from the gas chambers.Īfter the Germans took over Paris in 1940, Jews in France fled for their lives south to the Free Zone, where they invented Christian identities, hoping to avoid arrest and deportation to Nazi extermination camps. ![]() Yet during this time, another kind of railroad network existed “underground” known as the Marcel Network which slipped below the Nazi radar. The first one is The Marcel Network written by Fred Colman and published this year by Potomac Books.īack in 1944 when my father Speed flew bombing missions over France, he helped to destroy the network of railroads supplying the Nazis. ![]() ![]() Today I’m going to tell you about two books.
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