Władysław Szpilman
(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor · Poland · On the map · Musicians · Died at 88 · also Russia
A pianist who played live on Polish Radio as Warsaw burned, then spent two years hidden in the ruins of the ghetto - saved, in the end, by a German officer who hated the regime hunting him.
Władysław Szpilman is read about 2,007 times a day, in 48 languages.
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Franciszek Brodniewicz Władysław wrote Wrzos and Doctor Murek
Wanda Jarszewska Władysław wrote Wrzos and Doctor Murek
Jerzy Zarzycki Directed Unvanquished City (1950)
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Adolf Goldfeder i Władysław Szpilman (1942)
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83 Puławska Street, Warsaw (Plaque to Władysław Szpilman)
83 Puławska Street, Warsaw
Café Nowoczesna poster, Warsaw ghetto, 1941
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Władysław Szpilman studied piano at academies in Berlin and Warsaw and became a popular performer on Polish Radio and in concert. After the German invasion of Poland, he was confined within the Warsaw Ghetto, where he spent two years in hiding. Following the Warsaw Uprising and the destruction of the city, he was helped by Wilm Hosenfeld, a German officer who detested Nazi policies. He survived as one of the "Robinson Crusoes" - Poles who remained in the ruins of Warsaw after the Uprising. After the war, Szpilman resumed his career on Polish Radio and became a prolific composer, writing hundreds of songs and many orchestral pieces. His autobiographical account of survival became the basis for Roman Polanski's film The Pianist.
