Avram LEIBOVICI

Unfortunately, we do not have a photograph of Avram.
Avram Leibovici was born on November 15, 1889 in Jassy (Iași), in the Moldavian region of Romania. He was married to Freida Leibovici, née Bisel, born on June 16, 1896. His wife is referred to in some documents under the name of Frarda Bisel Leibovici. Avram was a driver and lived at 2, rue Henri Ranvier in the 11th district of Paris. The couple had been naturalized as French citizens, this having been published in the Journal officiel de la République française (Official Journal of the French Republic) of December 16, 1928.

Source of the documents above: National Library of France, website Internet Gallica Naturalisations. Journal officiel de la république française of December 16, 1928, pp. 13 089 and 13 092.
During the Second World War, Avram Leibovici declared himself to be a French Jew in accordance with the French State’s anti-Semitic law of June 2, 1941.
 
The couple had a son, Raymond, born on February 1, 1922 in Paris. His father taught him to keep the memory of Romania alive despite the fact that his child had only ever known France. Raymond had a very conventional education. He became politically involved in the 12th section of the French Socialist Party (SFIO). Raymond was deported by convoy 3 from Drancy on June 6, 1942 at the age of 20.
His parents, Freida and Avram, were deported on July 31,1944 as part of convoy 77 from Drancy to Auschwitz. They were never to return.

Source of the document above: © Shoah Memorial C77_21.
Freida and Avram died on August 5, 1944 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
From the Journal officiel de la République française (Official Journal of the French Republic) N° 0055 dated 04/03/2012.
 
 
Sources:
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French national library) website Internet Gallica Naturalisation :
https://gallica.bnf.fr/conseils/content/naturalisation
– Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation):
– Archives of the city of Paris:
 
http://archives.paris.fr/r/123/archives-numerisees/
 
– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
 
https://www.ushmm.org/fr
– Serge Klarsfield – Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France, 1978:
 
http://www.fondationshoah.org/memoire/memorial-de-la-deportation-des-juifs-de-france-serge-klarsfeld
– MemorialGenWeb, website:
 
http://www.memorialgenweb.org/memorial3/html/fr/index.php
 
 
Hugo Benegda, Florea Dawid Florea and Marcel Niesluchowski
9th grade students from the Lycée français de Varsovie (French high school in Warsaw), school year 2018-2019.
 
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Benegda Hugo, Florea Dawid et Niesluchowski Marcel. Elèves de 3ème A du Lycée français de Varsovie, 2018-2019. Sous la direction de leur professeur, Franck Duhautoy.
 
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