Biography
Andrzej Szpilman is the son of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist living in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. Wladyslaw Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
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