Pin Floral Spett Family Brooch

While imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Sala Spett’s children, Monius and Rozia, gave her a floral cloth brooch for her birthday. It was made by a young girl in the camp and bought, as Sala said, “as a remembrance by my children … and my husband, for a slice of bread which meant a day’s hunger in Bergen-Belsen.” 

The family was liberated by American troops while on an evacuation train on April 13, 1945. The original pin, now in the Museum’s collection, was a gift of Martin Spett and family in memory of Arthur and Sala Spett.

Materials: Silver-plated nickel with full-color enamel