Title : The Pianist - The Extraordinary Destiny of a Jewish Musician in the Warsaw Ghetto 1939-1945 - Wladylaw Szpilman - Book
Summary : September 1939: Warsaw is crushed under German bombs. Before being silenced, the national radio station makes its last broadcast. The strains of Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor rise up. The performer's name is Wladyslaw Szpilman. He is Jewish. For him, a long night is beginning... Six years later, when Radio Poland resumes its broadcasts, it will be broadcasting the same piece, by the same performer. In the meantime, Szpilman will have experienced it all—and survived it all: the ghetto, the extermination of his people, the Warsaw Uprising, and then the city's destruction by the Germans. When, frozen and starving, wandering from hiding place to hiding place, he is an inch from death, the most unlikely of rescuers appears: a German officer, a righteous man named Wilm Hosenfeld. Haunted by the atrocity of his people's crimes, they will protect him. In 1946, Szpilman published his story. It was called "The Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw." The book was almost immediately banned by the communist regime. It would take more than fifty years for this strangely detached text, both sober and moving, to be finally rediscovered. After serving as director of Polish national radio, Wladyslaw Szpilman had an international career as a composer and pianist. He died in Warsaw in July 2000.
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