Władysław Szpilman
(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor
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Updated 2026-05-29
Polish pianist and composer whose survival of the Warsaw occupation became the basis for Roman Polanski's The Pianist. Szpilman's autobiography transformed him into the human face of a specific historical moment that cinema would later amplify.
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Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.
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