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Renia Spiegel

1924 - 1942

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Renia Spiegel (18 June 1924 – 30 July 1942) was a Jewish-Polish diarist who was killed during World War II in the Holocaust. Spiegel's diary, kept between the ages of 15 and 18, documents her experience as a teenager living in the city of Przemyśl through World War II as conditions for Jews deteriorated. Spiegel wrote about ordinary topics such as school, friendships, and romance, as well as about her fear of the growing war and about being forced to move into the Przemyśl ghetto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Renia Spiegel has received more than 76,881 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Renia Spiegel is the 4,472nd most popular writer (down from 3,766th in 2019).

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  • 77k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Renia Spiegel ranks 4,472 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert Greene, Johann Beckmann, Igor Severyanin, Dicuil, Deon Meyer, and Ingrid Jonker. After her are Choʻlpon, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Julia Quinn, Tracy Chevalier, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, and Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Renia Spiegel ranks 298. Before her are Yuri Bondarev, Leonard Rosenman, Michael Sela, Lola Albright, Oldřich Lipský, and Yvonne Loriod. After her are Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Valerio Bacigalupo, Kenny Dorham, Kurt Furgler, Heinz Müller, and Ranasinghe Premadasa. Among people deceased in 1942, Renia Spiegel ranks 182. Before her are Juhan Kukk, Jean Gilbert, José Díaz, Łucja Frey, Ferdinand Albin Pax, and Mel Sheppard. After her are Sergey Chaplygin, Nevile Henderson, Ludwig Aschoff, Hernando Siles Reyes, Frank Irons, and Sakutarō Hagiwara.

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