Władysław Szpilman

✶December 5, 1911

†July 6, 2000

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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.

(1911-2000) Polish pianist, composer, Holocaust survivor

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