Aveyron Deportations

Background

This collection contains records of 391 Jews residing in the department of Aveyron, situated in south-central France, who were deported during the period 1940-1944. This data was collected by Simon Massbaum during several years of visits to departmental archives in France and Belgium and presented in his 2022 tome Aveyron-Drancy-Auschwitz: Parcours Individuels Par Communes des 391 Juif Déportés Ayant Vécu en Aveyron.

Mr. Massbaum divides the 391 deportees into two groups: 1) 277 who were living and arrested in Aveyron and deported, and 2) 114 who officially resided in Aveyron but were arrested elsewhere in France and deported. In addition to the searchable data presented here, Mr. Massbaum's book contains a 1 to 2-page summary of each individual/family based on the documents he was able to collect from various sources.

Three of the 391 deportees were my family: my mother's aunt Klara Berg (Isakower), her husband Moses, and their teenage daughter Mia - who had been living in Aveyron for two years after fleeing Vienna and Antwerp - were arrested in the village of Canet d'Olt by French gendarmes on 26 August 1942. This effort is dedicated to their memory, with thanks to the BOULOC family for taking them in during their time as refugees in France.

DATABASE

This database includes 391 records of those who were deported from Aveyron.

The fields for this database are as follows:

• Surname
• Given name(s)
• Maiden Name
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Nationality
• Last residence
• Arrest location
• Deportation convoy number
• Deportation date
• Deportation destination
• Survived - Yes/No

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The information contained in this database is from Simon Massbaum's 2022 book, Aveyron-Drancy-Auschwitz: Parcours Individuels Par Communes des 391 Juif Déportés Ayant Vécu en Aveyron (Aveyron-Drancy-Auschwitz: Individual Journeys by Municipality of the 391 Deported Jews Who Lived in Aveyron).

The database was created by Matt Stein. Thanks also to Avital Hayon for checking and correcting the transcription of the entire data set.

Thank you to Nolan Altman, Director of Data Acquisition and Coordinator of Holocaust Database, for his continued devotion and dedication to JewishGen's important work.

September 2025

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