Renia Spiegel
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Renia Spiegel (18 June 1924 – 30 July 1942) was a Polish-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documents her life during the Nazi persecution. She is a diarist who described life in her school, with her friends, fear of deportation, murder, and being forced to move into a ghetto. She gained some posthumous fame with the 2012 publication of Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal, in which she documents her life as a Jew during the Holocaust from 1939 to 1942, during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Renia Spiegel | |
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| Born | 18 June 1924 Uhryńkowce, Second Polish Republic (modern-day Uhrynkivtsi, Ukraine) |
| Died | 30 July 1942 (aged 18) Przemyśl, German-occupied Poland |
| Occupation | Diarist |
| Language | Polish |
| Nationality | Polish; later stateless. |
| Genre | Biography • autobiography |
| Notable works | Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal (2012) |
Spiegel was born in Uhryńkowce, Poland in modern-day Uhrynkivtsi, Ukraine, in 1924. In September 1939, the Spegiels were trapped in Poland by the German occupation of Poland, with the help of the Soviet Union. Spiegel lost her citizenship and became stateless. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased, Spiegel and her younger sister Arianna were taken into captivity in a ghetto. On 28 July 1942, Spiegel and her younger sister Arianna escaped the ghetto and Spegiel went into hiding in the attic of her boyfriend's uncle's house, while Arianna was sent to live with her mother in Warsaw. Until her capture and murder by the Gestapo on 30 July 1942, Spiegel kept a diary, in which she wrote in it regularly.
Following her capture Spiegel was murdered by gunshots, along with her boyfriend's parents at around 10:30 p.m.
Life
changeRenia Spiegel was born on 18 June 1924.