Hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, participant of the Warsaw Uprising.
Born Bronek Szpigel in 1919, he found himself in the Warsaw Ghetto after the outbreak of World War II, where he became involved in the resistance movement. He fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, during which he detonated one of two mines held by the fighters in Nowolipie. Along with his future wife, Chaja Bełchatowska, he was among a group of approximately 60 insurgents who managed to escape to the so-called Aryan side. After leaving Warsaw, he joined the partisans. On August 1, 1944, he emerged from hiding and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, the couple emigrated to Canada. Spigel's son, Julius, explained this decision by saying: "My father was unable to live in the land where his ancestors had perished, and he saw no future for himself as a Jew in Poland."
In 2000, he gave an interview to Anka Grupińska for the book "Continuously in a Circle. Conversations with Soldiers of the Warsaw Ghetto," and in 2006 he appeared in the Israeli documentary "The Last Jewish Insurgents."
