René Heymann and his wife Laure Heymann, née Gugenheim, were French Jews from Alsace. René was born in Strasbourg on 2 March 1891 and worked as a master butcher; Laure was born in Kolbsheim on 6 April 1895. Before the war they lived at 59 Grande Rue in Strasbourg, where René owned a butcher’s shop. In May 1940 they moved to 83 rue Voltaire in Le Mans with Laure’s mother, Régine Gugenheim. The couple had two children, Pierre and Marlyse. Under the anti-Jewish measures, they were registered, monitored and forced to wear the yellow star. René and Laure were arrested together in Le Mans during the night of 8–9 October 1942, transferred to Mulsanne camp, then to Drancy on 18 October. On 13 February 1943 they were deported together on Convoy 48 to Auschwitz, arriving on 15 February. Laure was declared dead there on 18 February 1943; René was also killed in deportation.
