Trade and business index card for Elias Stern
Elias Stern, born in Sosnowiec in Poland in 1913, worked as an accountant in Katowice. At the beginning of the war in 1939, he was deported to the German forced labor camp in Lublin. From 1942 to 1944 he was a forced laborer in Bielawa before being taken to Mauthausen concentration camp from where he was finally liberated in 1945.
He returned to Sosnowiec to search for family members but did not find any survivors. He then went to Berlin and reached Munich in 1946 where he was given the status of a displaced person. From 1947 he worked as manager of the Hotel Bristol in Möhlstrasse. In 1950 he registered a “beer tavern and bar selling gin, wine, brandy, and non-spirits” at Schillerstrasse.
