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None of Szpilman's family members survived the war. Szpilman stayed in the ghetto as a labourer, [7] and helped smuggle in weapons for the coming Jewish resistance uprising. Szpilman remained in the Warsaw Ghetto until 13 February 1943, shortly before it was abolished after the deportation of most of its inhabitants in April–May 1943.
The Pianist is a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman in which he describes his life in Warsaw in occupied Poland during World War II. After being forced with his family to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, Szpilman manages to avoid deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp, and from his hiding places around the city witnesses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 ...
In November, he was discovered there by Hosenfeld. To Szpilman's surprise, the officer did not arrest or kill him; after discovering that the emaciated Szpilman was a pianist, Hosenfeld asked him to play something on the piano that was on the ground floor. Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne No. 20 in C♯ minor. [7]
Szpilman and his family sell many of their material belongings including his piano in order to make enough zlotys to survive. By November 1940, Szpilman and his family are forced from their home into the overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto. They struggle under the ghetto's squalid conditions with disease and starvation rampant. Szpilman finds work by ...
From left, Christian Friedel in "Zone of Interest," Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley in "Schindler's List," Géza Röhrig in "Son of Saul." (Photo illustration by An Amlotte / Los Angeles Times ...
During World War II, Bogucki and his wife were involved with the anti-German Polish resistance movement, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army).In February 1944 they were contacted through members of the Jewish underground by their friend, the pianist Władysław Szpilman, who was working as a slave laborer as one of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
[5] [6] Some sources state that he had a wife, Helena, who also helped Szpilman, [8] [9] although another source states that Lewicki did not get married until after the war. [5] Szpilman stayed in Helena's apartment after the incident of 12 August. [9] [10] In 1944 Lewicki participated in the Warsaw Uprising. [5] [11]
Szpilman was pulled from the line after being recognized by a Jewish policeman, who happened to stand guard at the Umschlagplatz. Szpilman's survival is described in his autobiography, The Pianist, which was made into a motion picture by Director Roman Polanski. Polanski, as well as his family, would also be affected by the Holocaust.