Renia Spiegel
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.