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Szpilman and his family were fortunate to live in the small ghetto, which was less crowded and dangerous than the other.
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Szpilman and family
Szpilman ’ s family ( he was living with his parents, his brother Henryk and his sisters Regina and Halina ) were amongst those who did not.
To avoid the concentration camps, rich, intellectual Jews like Szpilman ’ s family and many of his acquaintances could pay to have poorer Jews deported in their place.
Szpilman ’ s family was lucky to already be living in the ghetto area when the plans were announced.
After six days searching and deal making, Szpilman managed to procure six work certificates, enough for his entire family.
Soon after they arrived, Szpilman ’ s family was reunited.
Szpilman describes his last moments with his family :< p > By the time we had made our way to the train the first trucks were already full.
Szpilman never saw any members of his family again.
Szpilman and his family did not yet need to find a new residence, as their apartment was already in the ghetto area.
Władysław Szpilman and his family, along with all other Jews living in Warsaw, were forced to move into a " Jewish District "— the Warsaw Ghetto — on 31 October 1940.
Szpilman managed to find work as a musician to support his family which included his mother, father, brother Henryk, and two sisters, Regina and Halina.
Along with him, the Szpilman family and thousands of others asked that Hosenfeld be honoured in this way for his acts of kindness throughout the war.
Szpilman and were
Because of Stalinist cultural policy, and the ostensibly " grey areas " in which Szpilman ( Waldorff ) asserted that not all Germans were bad and not all of the oppressed were good, the actual book remained sidelined for more than 50 years.
In The Pianist, Szpilman describes a newspaper article that appeared in October 1940: A little while later the only Warsaw newspaper published in Polish by the Germans provided an official comment on this subject: not only were the Jews social parasites, they also spread infection.
These months were long and boring for Szpilman.
If he were ever discovered and unable to escape, Szpilman planned to commit suicide so that he would be unable to compromise any of his helpers under questioning.
Hiding in a predominantly German area, however, Szpilman was not in a good position to go out and join the fighting: first he would need to get past several units of German soldiers who were holding the area against the main power of the rebellion, which was based in the city centre.
Szpilman, hiding in his flat on the fourth floor, could only hope that the flats on the first floor were the only ones that were burning and that he would be able to escape the flames by staying high.
All of the floors below Szpilman ’ s were burnt out to varying degrees, and Szpilman left the building to escape the poisonous smoke that filled all the rooms.
Food and drink were scarce in the hospital, and for the first four or five days of his stay in the building, Szpilman couldn ’ t find anything.
Here, in larders and bathtubs ( which, due to the ravages of the fire, were now open to the air ) Szpilman found bread and rainwater, which kept him alive.
By October 14 Szpilman and the German army were all but the only humans still living in Warsaw, which had been completely destroyed by the Germans.
Looking out the window minutes later, Szpilman saw that his building had been surrounded by troops and that they were already making their way in via the cellars.
Some people were hiding in the remnants of the city, e. g. Władysław Szpilman, who later wrote his memoir The Pianist, filmed by Roman Polanski ( The Pianist, 2002 ).
Some of his songs were performed by singer Irena Santor to the music of composer Władysław Szpilman.
Szpilman and live
Szpilman continued to live in his various hiding places until August 1944.
Szpilman headed quickly away from his old building and soon found another, similar building that he could live in.
Szpilman and small
After hearing this news and completing whatever other business he had in the large ghetto, Szpilman would head back to his house in the small ghetto.
Szpilman and ghetto
Szpilman played piano at an expensive café which pandered to the ghetto ’ s upper class, made up largely of smugglers and other war profiteers, and their wives or mistresses.
Again, the experience of those in the bigger ghetto is best described by Szpilman: Dozens of beggars lay in wait for this brief moment of encounter with a prosperous citizen, mobbing him by pulling at his clothes, barring his way, begging, weeping, shouting, threatening.
Whenever he went into the large ghetto, Szpilman would visit a friend, Jehuda Zyskind, who worked as a smuggler, trader, driver or carrier when the need arose.
But before his death, in the winter of 1942, Zyskind supplied Szpilman with the latest news from outside the ghetto, received via radio.
After his work on the wall Szpilman survived another selection in the ghetto and was sent to work on many different tasks, such as cleaning out the yard of the Jewish council building.
Hidden inside his bags of food every day, Majorek would bring weapons and ammunition into the ghetto to be passed on to the resistance by Szpilman and the other workers.
Through Majorek, Szpilman managed to arrange his escape from the ghetto.
On February 13, 1943, Szpilman slipped through the ghetto gate and met up with his friend Andrzej Bogucki on the other side.
Szpilman was left in the ghetto as a laborer and helped smuggle in weapons for the coming Jewish resistance uprising.
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After much effort, Szpilman managed to extract from him a promise that Henryk would be home by that night, which he was.
Eventually, Szpilman was posted to a steady job as “ storeroom manager .” In this position, Szpilman organised the stores at the SS accommodation, which his group was preparing.
From the window of the flat in which he was hiding, Szpilman had a good vantage point from which to watch the beginnings of the rebellion.
As soon as he took the sleeping pills, which acted almost instantly on his empty stomach, Szpilman fell asleep.
On 30 August, Szpilman moved back into his old building, which by this time had entirely burnt out.
Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
A member of the Jewish Police ( Itzchak Heller ) pulled Szpilman from a line of people — including his parents, brother, and two sisters — being loaded onto a train at the transport site ( which, as in other ghettos, was called the Umschlagplatz ).
In 1963, Szpilman and Gimpel founded the Warsaw Piano Quintet, with which Szpilman performed worldwide until 1986.
When not touring or building pianos, he has been editing piano editions of the works of Władysław Szpilman for Boosey and Hawkes and wrote a piece on aesthetics, which was published in Poland in March 2005.
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