Władysław Szpilman

Birthday:

12/05/1911

Place of birth:

Sosnowiec, Poland:

Biography:

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia