by Władysław Szpilman · ISBN 9782221092569
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Discover the moving story of Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish musician who survived the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto. This book recounts his extraordinary experience during World War II, offering a personal and heartbreaking testimony of the horrors lived in the ghetto. It includes excerpts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld and a postscript by Wolf Biermann, providing a complete and moving perspective of this historical period.
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.
