* 1911 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist ( d. 2000 )

* December 5 – Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and memoirist ( d. 2000 )

' speech to his brother Władysław Szpilman in a Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, during the Nazi occupation in World War II.

* Władysław Szpilman

The Pianist is a memoir of the Polish composer of Jewish origin Władysław Szpilman, written and elaborated by the Polish author Jerzy Waldorff, who met Szpilman in 1938 in Krynica and became a friend of his.

Władysław Szpilman studied the piano in the early 1930s in Warsaw and Berlin.

The officer, learning that he was a musician, had asked him if he knew Władysław Szpilman.

As part of the 2007 Manchester International Festival, the memoir was performed as a two-man presentation, with pianist Mikhail Rudy and actor Peter Guinness both portraying Władysław Szpilman as he recounts his experiences.

The idea for the performance was originally conceived by the pianist, Mikhail Rudy, who gained the backing of Andrzej Szpilman ( Władysław Szpilman's son ).

* Władysław Szpilman information and biography

Władysław " Władek " Szpilman (; 5 December 19116 July 2000 ) was a Polish-Jewish pianist and composer as well as memoirist.

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.

In March 1999 Władysław Szpilman visited London for Jewish Book Week, where he met English readers to mark the publication of his bestselling book in England.

Other CDs with the works of Szpilman include Works for Piano and Orchestra by Władysław Szpilman with Ewa Kupiec ( piano ), John Axelrod ( director ), and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ( 2004 ) ( Sony BMG ) and the Original recordings of The Pianist and Władysław Szpilman-Legendary recordings ( Sony classical ).

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.

The first Sopot festival was initiated and organised in 1961 by Władysław Szpilman, assisted by Szymon Zakrzewski from Polish Artists Management ( PAGART ).

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 ).

He helped to hide or rescue several Poles, including Jews, in Nazi-occupied Poland, and is perhaps most remembered for helping Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944.

House at 223 Niepodległości Avenue in Warsaw where Wilm Hosenfeld was helping Władysław Szpilman

In 2002, The Pianist, a film based on Szpilman's memoirs of the same name, portrayed Wilm Hosenfeld's rescue of Władysław Szpilman.

Soon Polish artists started experimenting with other genres of cinema: in 1910 Władysław Starewicz made one of the first animated cartoons in the world-and the first to use the stop motion technique, the Piękna Lukanida ( Beautiful Lukanida ).

It was during that campaign that Władysław started the modernisation program of the Commonwealth army, emphasising the usage of modern infantry and artillery.

With promise of funds for the war, Władysław started recruiting troops among Cossacks in 1646.

Władysław of course did not lose hope of changing his fate, but for now he had to accept the postponement of his return, particularly when Conrad III started the Second Crusade with King Louis VII of France to the Holy Land the next year.

According to a legend, the town of Sejny was started by three of the old knights of King Władysław Jagiełło, who after the Battle of Grunwald was to grant them with a land parcel in what is now Sejny.

He founded a Catholic Church of John the Baptist and started construction of the Orthodox church which was completed by his successor-count Władysław Grzegorz.

On September 12, 1920, Polish forces withdrawn from the Battle of the Niemen under general Władysław Sikorski started a successful offensive on Bolshevik-held Volhynia.

After 1638 / 1639 when Władysław realised that Habsburgs were prepared to give him little assistance, her power waned, and he started to disregard her advice.

On September 7, 1939, general Władysław Langner started to organise the defence of the city.

During 1955-1957, he was a journalist – reporter and commentator – for the weekly Po prostu, which started during the rehabilitation of Władysław Gomułka, who became communist party leader.

Władysław Reymont's The Revolt ( 1922 ), a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce " equality.

Poland had suffered under a plethora of economic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( Władysław Grabski's economically competent government lasted for almost two years ).

Henry IV's major contenders for the Krakow throne were Leszek II's half-brother Władysław I the Elbow-high and Duke Bolesław II of Płock, who counted on the support of the Lesser Poland nobility.

The battle ended with a victory for the Masovia-Kuyavia coalition ; from two of Henry IV's allies, Duke Przemko of Ścinawa was killed in the battle, and Duke Bolko I of Opole was seriously injured and captured by Władysław I the Elbow-high.

Władysław Gomułka, at the height of his popularity, on 24 October 1956, addressing hundreds of thousands of people in Warsaw, asked for an end to demonstrations and a return to work.

After the events of Poznań June, they successfully backed the candidature of Władysław Gomułka for First Secretary of party, thus imposing a major setback upon Natolinians.

Despite the agreements signed between Władysław Jagiełło and the Polish magnates to ensure the succession for his sons, the opposition wanted another candidate for the Polish throne – Frederick of Brandenburg, who was betrothed to Hedwig, Jagiełło's daughter by his second wife.

The " bulwark of Christianity " and other slogans put forward by the papal envoy Giuliano Cesarini, together with much more reasonable but only verbal promises of Venetian and papal fleets blockading the Dardanelles Straits, along with an enticing vision of a promise of victory in this glorious crusade carried for the glory of God and against the Turks, persuaded Władysław to engage his freshly victorious forces ( long campaign ) for another season of war, thus breaching the ten-year truce with the aggressive and still powerful Ottoman Empire.

This bloody conflict was eventually brought to a temporary halt in 1392 with the Treaty of Ostrów, by which Władysław handed over the government of Lithuania to his cousin in exchange for peace: Vytautas was to rule Lithuania as the Grand Duke ( magnus dux ) until his death, under the overlordship of the Supreme Duke ( dux supremus ) in the person of the Polish monarch.

Władysław promised to repay Vytautas for his support by restoring Samogitia to Lithuania in any future peace treaty.

The road to the Teutonic capital Marienburg now lay open, the city undefended ; but for reasons the sources do not explain, Władysław hesitated to pursue his advantage.

Władysław then proceeded to release many high-ranking Teutonic Knights and officials for apparently modest ransoms.

After the failed crusade of Władysław III of Poland in 1443 towards Sofia, the city's Christian elite was annihilated and the city became the capital of the Ottoman province ( beylerbeylik ) of Rumelia for more than four centuries, which encouraged many Turks to settle there.

For the 13th century monarch, see Władysław I the Elbow-high, and for other nobles with a similar name, please see Ladislaus I ( disambiguation ).

As the second son, Władysław was not destined for the throne.

Władysław died on 4 June 1102, without resolving the issue of succession, leaving his sons to struggle for supremacy.

The situation was further complicated for Władysław I Herman by a lack of a legitimate male heir, as his first-born son Zbigniew came from a union not recognized by the church.

Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

Zbigniew took refuge in Silesia, a stronghold of negative sentiment for both Sieciech as well as his nominal patron Władysław I Herman.

Shortly after this performance, the court produced Francesca Caccini's opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall ' isola d ’ Alcina, which she had written for Prince Władysław three years earlier when he was in Italy.

Seven weeks later, November 17, 1939, on the orders of General Władysław Sikorski, this organization was succeeded by Związek Walki Zbrojnej ( Union for Armed Struggle ), which over two years later, on February 14, 1942, became the AK.

Fortunately for Henry II, the situation changed unexpectedly after the death of Władysław Odonic on 5 June 1239, leaving two minor sons, Przemysł I and Bolesław the Pious.