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	Władysław Szpilman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Szpilman remained in the ghetto until it was abolished after the deportation of most of its inhabitants—Szpilman was left as a labourer and helped smuggle weapons.
		Grave of Władysław Szpilman in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw
		Szpilman's memoir was not reprinted for fifty years, until 1998 when it was published in German first as Das wunderbare Überleben (The Fantastic Survival) and then in English as The Pianist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wladyslaw_Szpilman (665 words)

	The Pianist - The Book, The Movie. Wladyslaw Szpilman - Official Homepage
		But as the Szpilmans were being crammed onto the train, one of the Jewish policemen grabbed Wladyslaw by the collar, yanked him out of the throng and refused to let him through to rejoin his family on the journey to death.
		The strangest twist in Szpilman's strange story came at its end: he was discovered by a German officer who, after Szpilman had given proof of his profession by playing that same C sharp minor Nocturne on an abandoned piano, hid him and brought him food and an eiderdown for warmth.
		Szpilman's own early compositions include a violin concerto and a symphonic suite, The Life of Machines, and when the Nazis invaded he was engaged on a Concertino for piano and orchestra --- a jazz-flavoured, Gershwinesque piece remarkably good-natured for the circumstances of its origin.
	www.szpilman.net (3081 words)

	Wladyslaw Szpilman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Władysław Szpilman (December 5, 1911 –; July 6, 2000) was a (The property of being smooth and shiny) Polish pianist.
		Szpilman remained in the ghetto until it was abolished after the (An act of great destruction and loss of life) holocaust of most of its inhabitants — Szpilman was left as a labourer.
		Szpilman's memoir was not reprinted for fifty years, until 1998 when it was published in English (and many other languages) as (Click link for more info and facts about The Pianist) The Pianist.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wl/wladyslaw_szpilman.htm (382 words)

	The Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Szpilman's struggle to survive after the sudden loss of his family is portrayed as an almost surreal nightmare - indeed some of the cinematography portraying the destruction of Warsaw sends the film over the edge into stark surrealism, so far is it from our own personal experiences.
		Szpilman was haunted by the fact that he survived when so many others, including his father, his mother, his sister Regina, his sister Halina, and his brother Henryk did not.
		Wladyslaw's luck reminds us of the unlucky many, including his parents, sisters and brother; and luck can turn, cannot be counted on, so it exacerbates Wladyslaw's anxiety rather than relieves it, except when, of course, it kicks in.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_The_Pianist_rev.html (3000 words)

	The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
		The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years in between, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock.
		Szpilman's memoir of life in the Warsaw ghetto is remarkable not only for the heroism of its protagonists but for the author's lack of bitterness, even optimism, in recounting the events.
		Szpilman's memoir, suppressed by the Polish government shortly after its original publication in 1946, tells the story of the young mans difficult survival in wartime Warsaw and the deportation and death of his entire family.
	www.giotto.org /piccolomini/szpilman/szpilman.html (2239 words)

	The Pianist
		The Szpilman family rejoices to hear that Great Britain and France have joined the war and Poland is no longer alone, but soon thereafter they've been moved to a 'new' apartment and watch in horror as the wall which will define the Warsaw Ghetto is erected outside their window.
		Szpilman's luck works again when an old colleague and her husband hide him in an apartment from which he can view the Ghetto uprising, but a profiteering pal leaves him for weeks at a time with no food.
		Szpilman suffers the loss of his freedom and is soon denied even the privilege to ply his trade as a pianist.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thepianist.htm (1368 words)

	The Real Szpilman Revealed
		Szpilman is the author and subject of The Pianist, an account of his wartime survival in Warsaw which has been filmed by Roman Polanski and released sporadically around the world.
		Szpilman, slipping out of the Ghetto before its annihilation, was hidden by Poles in empty apartments and fed, near the end of the war, by a conscience-stricken German officer.
		Szpilman's memoir appeared in Polish in 1946 as Death of a City, only to be choked off by Stalinist censors.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/021204-NL-Szpilman.html (1016 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Pianist at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		No, Wladyslaw Szpilman survived in all the myriad random ways that most people did — certainly he was determined, certainly he was smart, but more than anything he was lucky, he had the kindness of friends and strangers, and he kept going.
		Szpilman was a man who existed amidst the horror, but always remained just outside of the white-hot center of Hell.
		But Szpilman spends the middle of the film removed from his piano and his music and I never got enough sense that even in absence of instrument, it was Chopin that drove his every move.
	www.epinions.com /content_85941390980 (2369 words)

	Global Hits: Wladyslaw Szpilman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Szpilman was a Jewish musician in Poland who managed to hide from the Nazis for years in the Warsaw ghetto.
		Wladyslaw Szpilman was known as a classical pianist but he also played jazz and even wrote a film score.
		ANDREJ SZPILMAN: There was a strong cultural living in the Warsaw ghetto you had orchestras, symphonic orchestras, you had jazz big bands, there was cabarets and in one of the big ones my father was performing every evening for almost one year...
	www.theworld.org /globalhits/2003/03/21.html (632 words)

	The Pianist - About Wladyslaw Szpilman
		Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) [pronounced "Vuadysuav Shpilman"; also addressed as Wladek ("Vuadek") Szpilman] was born in Sosnowiec, in Poland.
		As Jews, Szpilman and his family (parents, brother Henryk, and sisters Halina and Regina) were soon evicted from their apartment and herded, with several hundred thousand others, into the Warsaw Ghetto.
		In 1999, Szpilman's son Andrzej, whose father had never spoken about the war years (not uncommon among that generation of fathers and sons), arranged for the book to be published in Germany.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=pianist2&File=3014 (813 words)

	Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - david del tredici bio
		But there is more to Szpilman than being "The Pianist." He is increasingly being noticed as a composer, both of concert works and of music in a lighter vein.
		Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in the Polish town of Sosnowiec on 5 December 1911.
		Szpilman performed as a concert pianist and chamber musician in Poland, as well as throughout Europe and America.
	www.cabrillomusic.org /2003/bios/szpilman_bio.html (679 words)

	GuessTheGross.com's Pianist, The Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wladyslaw is saved from the train ride, a blessing and a curse that starts him on a journey that will span many years, secret locations, and helping hands as Warsaw crumbles around him.
		Wladyslaw escapes the fate of some six million Jews who died in the gas chambers, when a Jewish police officers pulls him off the train and sends him to hide in the ghetto.
		Near the end we do see Szpilman, play the piano again and it is a heartbreaking moment as he seems to have forgotten how to play but quickly picks it up again, and by the end has brought the piece a whole new meaning simply with the courage it took for him to play it.
	www.bikkit.com /gtg/content/new_ppage.asp?MovID=458 (1840 words)

	The Pianist Reviews
		Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody) plays his piano, for what will be the last time, over the radio airwaves of Warsaw as German artillery bombards the city in the opening moments of World War Two.
		The Szpilman family rejoices to hear that Great Britain and France have joined the war and Poland is no longer alone, but soon thereafter they've been moved to a 'new' apartment and watch in horror as the wall which will define the Warsaw Ghetto is...
		Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman and his family, along with all other Warsaw Jews, are persecuted by the Germans and placed inside a bricked-off ghetto...
	www.killermovies.com /p/thepianist/reviews (540 words)

	The Pianist
		Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a gifted classical pianist born to a wealthy Jewish family in Poland.
		While Wladyslaw and his family are aware of the looming presence of German forces and Hitler's designs on Poland, they're convinced that the Nazis are a menace which will pass, and that England and France will step forward to aid Poland in the event of a real crisis.
		Wladyslaw's naïveté is shattered when a German bomb rips through a radio studio while he performs a recital for broadcast.
	www.rtwo.org /movie/details/2587.html (336 words)

	Featuring Wladyslaw Szpilman at the Bigos Bar
		Władysław Szpilman was born in 1911 in Sosnowiec, Poland and died in 2000 in Warsaw, Poland.
		Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and when enemy bombardment forced the closing of Polish State Radio, Szpilman's performance of Chopin's C sharp minor Nocturne was being broadcast and was interrupted by the bombs dropping around the station.
		Szpilman survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the devastation of Warsaw by the Nazis following the Warsaw Uprising.
	www.bigosbar.com /szpilman.htm (308 words)

	Review: THE PIANIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Based upon the stunning autobiography that was written by Wladyslaw Szpilman himself, The Pianist is a shocking movie that tells the horrifying and yet remarkable true story about the musician who had to endure so much just to survive.
		Szpilman and his family are forcefully moved from ghetto to ghetto by the Nazi's for the better part of three years.
		Szpilman leaves the war with deep scars that will haunt him for the rest of his life and is a different man after suffering an experience no one should have to endure.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /columnists/peterlowry/article7.html (848 words)

	Rambles: Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wladyslaw Szpilman initially wrote this shortly after the end of World War II and in it he tells of his experiences in Warsaw during the war.
		Szpilman spent the entire war in Warsaw, and his writings cover from the German invasion until the Russians drove the Germans out.
		While he makes no reference to Szpilman in them, one can clearly see why he chose to act as he did.
	www.rambles.net /szpilman_pianist45.html (338 words)

	AboutFilm.com - The Pianist (2002)
		Szpilman was a celebrated pianist and composer at the time of the German invasion.
		Szpilman's family was relocated to the Jewish ghetto, and when they were taken away, he eluded deportation with help from outsiders--including from some unexpected sources--barely avoiding capture several times and living constantly on the razor's edge.
		The Pianist recounts Szpilman's astonishing story in careful, attentive detail, but it is filled with particulars from Polanski's own life, from the reality of life in the Jewish ghetto to the awkward position a woman's corpse assumes after she is shot in the head while Szpilman observes from his hiding place.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/p/pianist.htm (747 words)

	3BlackChicks Review™... Spotlight On THE PIANIST (Cass)
		Szpilman flees the bombed out radio station and returns home, where he and his brother and sisters still live with their father, (Frank Finlay), and mother (Maureen Libman).
		Szpilman is asked by one of his friends to join the Jewish police force, which is formed to force the Jews to obey Nazi regulations, such as curfews.
		Wladyslaw Szpilman died on July 6, 2000 in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 88.
	www.3blackchicks.com /2003reviews/cassthepianist.html (774 words)

	The Pianist - The Book by Wladyslaw Szpilman
		Wladyslaw Szpilman was born in on December 5th, 1911 in Sosnowiec/Poland.
		Since 1945 Szpilman has appeared in concerts as a soloist and with chamber groups in Poland, throughout Europe and in America.
		Wladyslaw Szpilman died on July 6th, 2000 in Warsaw.
	www.szpilman.net /autor.html (3854 words)

	The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
		Told by Szpilman, we suffer as he suffers and are filled with hope and disappointment time and time again.
		Wladyslaw Szpilman wrote his story just after the war ended and after he was given this advice: If you want to be able to get on with your life after all you have been through; see a psychiatrist or write a book.
		Szpilman answers these and many other questions, providing you with not just a glimpse of the holocaust, but the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of one of the most cruel episodes in human history.
	www.book-summary-review.com /The-Pianist-0312244150.htm (1047 words)

	Wladyslaw Szpilman - The Pianist
		Recently published in English with the title "The Pianist," Wladyslaw Szpilman's harrowing account was first published in Poland in 1946 under the title "Death of a City." Until recently, the book had remained largely unnoticed.
		This brief report gives an overview about Szpilman during the course of the war from the German invasion in September 1939 to Poland's liberation in January 1945.
		Szpilman is shown as well as a picture of the officer who saved him.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/thepianist.php (1691 words)

	Szpilman's Warsaw: The History behind The Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Descended from a long line of Polish Jewish musicians, Wladyslaw Szpilman first trained as a pianist at the Chopin School of Music in Warsaw.
		Szpilman continued to concertize and write new music after Warsaw's Jews were resettled in the ghetto in October 1940.
		Pictured: Zile Szpilman (seated, 3rd from left); Rivn Szpilman, father of Leo Spellman (seated 4th from left); Yisroel Leyb Szpilman, grandfather of Wladyslaw Szpilman and Leo Spellman (standing top row with bass); Szymon Bajgelman, father of Henry Baigelman (standing far left).
	www.ushmm.org /museum/exhibit/focus/pianist/pianist.php (525 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wladyslaw Szpilman
		Władysław Szpilman (December 5, 1911 –; July 6, 2000) was a Polish pianist.
		December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
		Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II, starting in 1941 and continuing through 1945.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wladyslaw-Szpilman (895 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Szpilman was emotionally detached during the writing as he probably had not come back to his senses after the inferno.
		Wladyslaw Szpilman was a young pianist who performed pieces on polish radio before the Germans invaded his home in Warsaw.
		Despite the loss of his entire family Szpilman conjures the courage to survive, which was perhaps the hardest thing to do in the Jewish Ghetto.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312311354 (1555 words)

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