The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust

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By Fred Coleman ’60

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Potomac Books) Coleman tells the story of a young French Jewish couple – Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi and Odette Rosenstock – who created a clandestine operation to save Jewish children in Nazi-occupied France. In conducting research for the book, Coleman interviewed some of the now grown children that the couple saved, including Julien Engel ’54. As a foreign correspondent, Coleman was Newsweek’s bureau chief in Paris for five years and the magazine’s bureau chief in Moscow for eight.

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