Wladyslaw Szpilman
...eath of a City”, a book that recounts his incredible experience in the midst of torment. The novel tells about his life in the ghetto and show how it was for the victims and the torturers who inhabited this singular world. The work was banned by the communist authorities. One time he was hiding in an apartment from the Nazis, hoping that his friends who put him there would return to help him, but to his dismay they never did. He was going insane with famine, eating anything he could in order to survive. There was a piano in the apartment which he often played to consume time, until one day a German soldier heard the music and entered, the only reason Wladlyslaw was spared if he played the soldier a song each day, in exchange for food and not being shot, so his music saved him. When the polish radio resumed broadcasting again in 1945, he returned the station. He was soon named musical director of the station and played in concerts and as a soloist in Europe and America. Playing piano duo with Bronislav Grimple, they performed over 2500 concerts throughout the world. He later won a prize for a song he wrote for the children from the Polish Composers Union. He later went on to co...