Wolf Fojgel / Willy Fogel (M / Poland, 1928-2003), Holocaust survivor

Willy Fogel (Poland, 1928-2003) is a child survivor of the Holocaust.

• <Poland> <Plaszow> <Buchenwald> / <France> <OSE Orphanage>

NOTES : Willy Fogel was born in Poland in 1928. He was deported to Plaszow and ended up in Buchenwald in September 1944. The political organization at Buchenwald was able to protect them and many other children at the camp, until liberation.

Chaim and Jakub were among the youngest child Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald.

• USHMM Collections -- Escorted by American soldiers, a transport of child survivors of Buchenwald file out of the main gate of the camp (17 April 1945). Among the children pictured are Izio Rosenman (head of column), Jacques Finkel, Charles Finkel, Fredek Margolis, Lalek Russ, Salek Sandowski, George Goldbloom and ? Zylber. Misho Frailich, Willy Fogel, A. Grossman, Lotci Miller, Laiza Grynberg, Usha Grynberg, David Perlmutter, Marek Lodzinsky, Yankel Kapelush, Yosel Dziubak, Loyosh Hershkovitz, ? Yakubovitz, Reuven Wekselman, Stanley Weinstein, Herschek Zeit, Henryk Kolber, Jacques Werber and Philip Kaner. Mor Stern is the boy in the beret and white coat, with right arm hanging down straight just right of the two American soldiers.

Willy was brought to France in an OSE orphanage, together with other 426 children of Buchenwald.

He settled in France. With Armand Bulwa and Jacques Finkel he was the founder of the Amicale des anciens de l'OSE.