Children of Saul

György Spӓt

Kápolnásnyék, 1933 – Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944.

The 11-year-old boy was the son of Dr. Imre Spӓt, a general practitioner in Kápolnásnyék. In his place of residence, Hungarian gendarmes searching for hidden valuables tortured the Jewish men and subjected the women to a strip search. They were deported on 5 June. The Spӓt family wrote the last letter to their relatives: ‘They are taking us away now, we don’t know where yet. We say goodbye, perhaps forever. God be with us all, may faith give us all the strength to endure the ordeal. Kissing your hands, hugs and kisses to all of you, with lots of love: Joly, Imre, Gyuri.” They were dragged to the ‘Szabó’ brick factory in Székesfehérvár, where another search followed. Their deportation took place on 14 June. Three days later, they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where György (probably with his mother) was gassed. His father was taken to Dachau concentration camp for slave labor in September 1944. He died a few days before liberation, on 23 April 1945, in the subcamp at Kaufering.