Ignatz Spett
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Portrait of three Jewish DP youth at the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) children's home in Champigny-sur-Marne. Pictured from left to right are: Leon Lewkowicz, Johny Weisz and Ignatz Spett. USHMM Collections
Ignatz Spett / Edward Spett (M / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Buchenwald> <Liberation of Buchenwald> -- <France> <OSE Orphanage>
Biography
Edward Spett was born 2 June 1928 in Oświęcim, Poland as Ignatz Spett. He survived the ghetto in Sosnowiec and concentration camps Blechhammer, Sakrau, Ohrdruf, Gräditz, Faulbrück, Gross Rosen, Klettendorf, and Buchenwald. His interview was recorded in 1996 in Wyckoff, NJ, USA.
He was one the child Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald and was among the 427 children brought to France from Buchenwald.
OSE Orphanage List
- #333 Ignac Spett, Poland, 1928.