What is Renia Spiegel?
{{No sources|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox writer | name = Renia Spiegel | birth_date = 18 June 1924 | birth_place = [[Uhryńkowce]], [[Second Polish Republic]]<br/> (modern-day<br/> [[Uhrynkivtsi]], [[Ukraine]]) | death_date = 30 July 1942<br/> (aged 18) | death_place = [[Przemyśl]],<br/> [[General Government|German-occupied Poland]] | occupation = Diarist | genre = [[Biography]] • [[autobiography]] | nationality = [[Poles|Polish]]; later stateless. | language = [[Polish language|Polish]] | notableworks = ''Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal'' (2012) }} '''Renia Spiegel''' (18 June 1924{{spnd}}30 July 1942) was a Polish-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documents her life during the [[Nazi Party|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 [[General Government|German occupation of Poland]] in [[World War II]]. 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 [[History of Jews during World War II|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 a