The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945

On December 13, 1942, 40 Jewish forced laborers were interned in Maa-Abiod. The camp was dissolved in the middle of April 1943 after the “termite” (regional representative of the Committee for Recruitment) Maurice Taïeb was able to convince the responsible German officer that the Jews would be of no use in the heavy fighting in that area but would be useful as forced laborers in Mateur. The forced laborers were then sent to Mateur to do cleanup work and excavation. The Allies liberated them at the beginning of May 1943.