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Boruch Spiegel

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Boruch Spiegel (AP Photo) Boruch Spiegel in the Amazing Lives Memorials Photo Gallery Enlarged Photo



Spiegel was one of about 750 Jewish fighters who on April 19, 1943, launched an uprising that took the Germans off guard. The fighters were overwhelmingly outnumbered and outgunned and the revolt never had a real chance, but the fighters still managed to hold out for a month, longer than some countries invaded by Hitler.

Ultimately, though, the Nazi revenge was brutal and involved burning the Warsaw ghetto down building by building. Only a few do zen of the Jewish fighters survived by escaping the ghetto through underground sewage canals to reach the so-called "Aryan side" of the Polish city. Spiegel and his future wife Chaika Belchatowska were among them.



It's not clear how many of the fighters are still living, but the number is certainly tiny.



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