Wladyslaw Szpilman was a famous Jewish-Polish pianist who survived the Holocaust. In his early life, Szpilman studied piano at the Chopin School of Music in Warsaw, Poland. Later, he traveled to Berlin to study at the Academy of the Arts. As soon as Hitler seized power, Szpilman returned home and became a celebrated pianist. For a while, Szpilman worked as a pianist in restaurants to support his family, but eventually his whole family was sent to an extermination camp. Szpilman would have been sent too if it were not for a family friend who pulled Szpilman out of the waiting area and saved his life. Szpilman worked as a laborer in the ghetto and assisted in smuggling weapons for jews to rebel. Soon afterwords, the ghetto was shut down after most of its inhabitants had died and Szpilman was forced to go into hiding. Szpilman was able to survive the Holocaust and later wrote a memoir about it titled The Pianist. Szpilman died at the age of 88 on July 6th, 2000.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Szpilman
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