Born in 1919 in Odessa, Ukraine, he was a member of “Beitar” from 1932 to 1939, also joining the militant revisionist organization “Brit HeHayal”. In 1942 he and a group of like minded youth tried to cross the border between Turkmenistan and Iran in order to reach Eretz Yisrael. The group was arrested and put on trial. Pyotr Spector, being the head of the group, was sentenced to death but this sentence was commuted to 10 years imprisonment in a labour camp under exceptionally severe restrictions. He served his sentence in the Ashkhabad prison and in the camps of Karaganda, Aktiublag, Orlag and Vostok. Released in 1952 he was unable to emigrate to Israel until 1960. Remember & Save website
