Holocaust Survivor: One Song Stood Between Him and a Nazi’s Pistol

The true story of Władysław Szpilman — the Holocaust survivor whose life came down to a single Chopin nocturne. This is the real history behind The Pianist: a WW2 survival story set in occupied Warsaw and the Warsaw Ghetto.

In September 1939, Szpilman played the last live piece of music on Polish Radio before the bombs cut the broadcast. Six years later he was the last man alive in a dead city — until a German officer found him hiding in the ruins and asked him to play. What happened next is one of the most extraordinary true stories of the Second World War.

This is the full story: the last broadcast, the ghetto, the Umschlagplatz, the years in hiding, and Captain Wilm Hosenfeld — the enemy soldier who chose to keep him alive.

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Archival footage & images: public domain material via the U.S. National Archives (NARA) and the Internet Archive.

This video is an educational and historical documentary. It does not promote or endorse any ideology.

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Видео Holocaust Survivor: One Song Stood Between Him and a Nazi’s Pistol канала The History Harbor