Willy and Catherine Fogel papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Catherine Fogel
Biographical History
Aba Sztern was born in 1922 and grew up in Paris, France, with his sister, Catherine. During the German occupation of France, Aba was interned in Beaune-la-Rolande. Subsequently, he was deported on convoy no. 5 to Auschwitz where he perished. Catherine Sztern survived the war and was later married to Willy Fogel, a child survivor of Buchenwald.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Willy and Catherine Fogel in 2005.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of a Jewish New Year's card sent to Catherine Fogel by her brother, Aba Sztern, a prisoner in the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. In the card he writes that he hopes the family will be together before too long. Also included is a photograph of Jewish prisoners posing on a wooden bunk inside a barrack in the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp.
People
- Sztern, Aba.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Barracks--France--Beaune-la-Rolande--1940-1950.
- Rosh ha-Shanah.
- Prisoners--France--Beaune-la-Rolande--1940-1950.
Genre
- New Year cards.
- Photographs.
- Document