The youngest child of the Spira family is only ten years old when in December 1938, along with his brother Siegmund, he manages to leave Berlin on a Kindertransport for Belgium. Felix is sent by the welfare committee for young Jewish refugees to a children’s home (maison de cure) in Wezembeek, located in the eastern suburbs of Brussels. He stays there for almost a year. On November, 27 1939 he finally joins his parents, his brother and his sisters Gisela and Toni, in Brussels, Van der Haegen Street. Felix is interned with the entire family in the camp of Bram, in the Aude department in May 1940. He is sent with his mother Rose and his sisters on barrack 135. The family is released from the camp on June, 30 1940, and placed in forced residency in Salleles d’Aude. Felix is arrested with his father Herzel, Rosa and Toni on August, 26 1942.
Interned in the camp of Rivesaltes he is deported from Drancy on September, 11 1942 with the convoy 31.
1000 people were deported in this convoy, among them 171 children under 17. Felix was 13 years old when he was murdered in Auschwitz.
