Chaike Helen BELCHATAWSKA SPIEGEL (1919 - 2002)

Cemetery Baron de Hirsch de la Savane Cemeteries
Section Montreal Workers Circle #3 (Map: D13) List Overview
Location Line 15 Grave 9
Given Names Chaike
Nickname Helen
Birth Surname BELCHATAWSKA
Surname SPIEGEL
Hebrew Name Chaike
Birth Date 1919 Nov 11
Death Date 2002 Mar 26
Burial Date 2002 Mar 31
Death Age 82
Spouse Boruch Yakir
Holocaust Fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Relations Wife, Mother, Grandmother
Comments/Notes Footstone translation: True to the ideals of the Bund. Member of the Yiddishe Kamfs-Organizatsye [Jewish Fighting Organization]. Fought in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Obituary On Tuesday, March 26, 2002. Beloved wife of Boruch Yakir. Devoted mother and mother-in-law of Chil and Suzanne, Mindy and Eugene Orenstein. Cherished grandmother of Max Beryl and Sam Henry Spiegel, Amaryah and Yoninah Rachel Orenstein. Chaike was a heroic fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, life-long member of the Jewish Labour Bund, devoted to the ideal of social justice. Long-time secretary of the Women's Vladeck Branch of the Montreal Workmens Circle. Funeral service from Paperman & Sons, 3888 Jean Talon West, on Sunday, March 31, 2002 at 1 p.m. Burial at the Montreal Workers Circle cemetery, de la Savane.
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