Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Polish pianist, composer and memoirist.
Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polański film
The Pianist
, which is based on his autobiographical book recounting how he survived the Holocaust. In November 1998 Władysław Szpilman was honoured by the president of Poland with a Kommandor Order with a Star of Polonia Restituta.
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