Odette Abadi (née Rosenstock; 24 August 1914 – 29 July 1999) was a French physician, and member of the Resistance during World War II.
Secretly, Rosenstock appreciated some of the principles and her Jewish background but hid her desires due to the Nazi movement in Germany.
[3] Unable to return to her former position, Rosenstock was hired as a temporary worker in Jewish dispensaries before they eventually closed[6] and then as a midwife.
[7] At the end of November 1942, she met up with refugee Moussa Abadi in Nice, and together they collected children left abandoned after their Jewish parents were arrested.
[9][10] Both Rosenstock and Abadi obtained false papers identifying them as Christian as Vichy police began rounding up Jewish people.
[2] Under the false name of Sylvie Delattre, Rosenstock acted as a social worker for the Church and approached Protestant families, while Abadi sought convents and Catholic schools to hide the Jewish children.
[10] Through word of mouth, Jewish parents learnt about the Réseau Marcel and preemptively left their children with the couple before leaving for the camps or attempting to flee.
[6] After realizing the reality of her arrest, Abadi fell into deep distress and was encouraged to seek refuge in the hinterland.
[6] In documents released after the war, she revealed a previously unknown protocol for combatting contagious diseases, which was that when infected individuals were discovered, their entire block was sent to the crematoria.
[16] On 13 September 2008, a square in Paris was named "Place Moussa et Odette Abadi" as a tribute to the couple's work.