The Spoon Fork

Without utensils, inmates would have to use their hands to eat. Making utensils from scrap metal were small but significant ways in which prisoners attempted to help themselves. This novel design of a spoon-fork made by Stephen Gonda, enabled him to easily switch between eating solid and liquid foods.

Born in 1901 in Kecskemet, Hungary, he was incarcerated in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. While in Sachsenhausen, working as a forced labourer, he was assigned to work in the Heinkel aircraft factory, Oranienburg, where the Germans built Messerschmidt aircraft.