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The Abadi Network
Founders: Moussa Abadi, Odette Rosenstock and Paul Rèmond
Areas of Interest: Jewish children
Notable projects/programs:
No current
More about The Abadi Network:
More than just a philanthropic organization, The Abadi Network was a historical altruistic organization built by Moussa Abadi, Odette Rosenstock and Paul Rèmondt to rescue and redeem Jewish children from the Holocaust. From 1943 to 1944, while Jewish children were being taken to Nazi concentration camps, The Abadi Network managed to salvage 527 children.
Moussa Abadi was a Jewish student at the Sorbonne in Paris when Adolf Hitler rose to power. He and his wife Odette Rosenstock, a physician, correspondingly moved to Nice, but the threat proved to be just as real in France. Using Bishop Rèmond's office as their home, Moussa and Odette assumed false identities: Moussa became Monsieur Marcel and Odette became Sylvie Deltattre. Able to move freely about France, the couple soon formed the Abadi Network or the "Marcel" Network.
While France was being liberated from September 1943 to August 1944, the Abadi Network gathered all the Jewish children they could find and concealed them in private domiciles and Catholic institutions around Nice and Cannes. Like their protectors, the children assumed false identities. To manage the survivors under their care, the Abadi Family made a card catalog of the children's vital information, birthdays and photographs.
On May 1944, Odette was discovered by the Gestapo, who exiled her to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She returned alive to France in June 1945. After the Axis Powers had its comeuppance, Moussa and Odette Abadi set out to reunite the children with their families and found homes for those orphaned. Moussa Abadi and Odette Abadi then moved back to Paris, where Odette Abadi continued her medical practice. Meanwhile, Bishop Rèmond rose to the rank of Archbishop of France. In 1992, he was ranked a Righteous Among Nations by Yad Vashem.
Moussa Abadi's video recordings were subsequently passed on to his great nephew, Carlos Abadi. Carlos Abadi has since donated them to New York University, where the collection became one of Helen Solterer's premier references in her symposium, "The Passion of Moussa Abadi." Carlos Abadi has also given nine hours of previously undocumented video tapes to Duke University.
Like his great uncle, Carlos Abadi has become a philanthropist. Carlos Abadi has prolifically donated to Inwood House, a New York nonprofit institution helping teenage mothers. Carlos Abadi is an esteemed business consultant in the areas of emerging markets, financial institutions, and governments. Carlos Abadi is president of Abadi & Co. Carlos Abadi is also a member of the advisory board for RGE Monitor.