Willy and Catherine Fogel papers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

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. 

Willy and Catherine Fogel papers 

folder 1 

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.