Władysław Szpilman, Wiera Gran, Władysław Szlengel, Gela Seksztajn... Famous and cherished before the war, they sang, wrote, composed and painted. They spoke Yiddish and Polish. During World War II, ...

The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...

All of this is echoed in the movies made in this period. The Pianist is unique in that we see all of these events only through the eyes of Szpilman. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and then the Warsaw ...

Desa Unicum will start selling Władysław Szpilman’s objects, including bowties, an antique metronome and a death mask of the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin, on Sept. 22, the Warsaw-based firm ...

The Warsaw Ghetto exists now only as a memory - virtually all physical traces were destroyed in 1943 along with its inhabitants. A handful of photographs and official Nazi film give a distorted ...

Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, but is later separated from his family during Operation Reinhard. From this time until the concentration camp prisoners are released, Szpilman hides in ...