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Wilm Hosenfeld, A Man Of courage – The story of Wilm Hosenfeld; Comment on Hosenfeld in conjunction with Roman Polanski's filmThe Pianist; Page on Wilm Hosenfeld and The Pianist on the website of Hosenfeld's grandson "Dziennik" 13 Oct. 2007 Archived 2007-10-21 at the Wayback Machine re posthumous award of Polonia Restituta – In Polish
Wilm Hosenfeld (1895–1952), Nazi Captain who hid and rescued many Polish people, including Władysław Szpilman; Kurt Huber (1893–1943), White Rose; Helmuth Hübener (1925–1942), Hamburg Vierergruppe (German Resistance) Walter Huder (1921–2002) Alois Hundhammer (1900–1974), at the time, the youngest member of the Bavarian Landtag
Years later Szpilman also played this piece for German army officer Wilm Hosenfeld upon their first meeting, [6] though in the corresponding film scene Szpilman plays an abridged version of Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23. Hosenfeld later helped Szpilman hide and provided food to him in the last months of the war.
Hosenfeld meets Szpilman for the last time, promising he will listen to him on Polish Radio after the war. Hosenfeld leaves Szpilman with a large supply of food and his greatcoat to keep warm. After Warsaw is liberated, Szpilman narrowly survives an ambush by several People's Army troops who mistake him for a German because of the coat.
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So that at least he could spare his little charges the fear of passing from life to death." – The Pianist, pp. 95-96. [14] The 1999 English-language edition also includes excerpts from Wilm Hosenfeld's diary (1942–44). Biermann's Epilogue gives further insight into Hosenfeld's deeds and his character.
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 ...
His research covers the collection of letters and diaries of the Wehrmacht army captain Wilm Hosenfeld, who was an eye-witness to the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. [ 3 ] Vogel is an editorial staff member of Militargeschichte.