Le Réseau Marcel - Histoire d'un réseau juif clandestin

In France’s southeast department of Alpes Maritimes, in Nice, in the years 1943-1945, a Jewish-led underground operation saved 527 children from certain death. Only in 7995 did Moussa and Odette Abadi, the principals in this story, give an account of their actions in a video recording intended for a historical archive by Yale University. In this still unpublished oral history, the Abadis describe the origin and operations of network they created. This operated independently of other such organizations, but it would not have come about without the supportive complicity by the Bishop of Nice, Monsignor Rémond. Sixty years later, in a search that parallels these events, Andrée Poch, a child hidden and save by the Network, engages in a quest for her past to reconstruct the memory of her shattered childhood. She meets others children who also were hidden by the Marcel network, and thus who were privileged witnesses of the Jewish resistance wartime.