Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (born 1911)

Władysław Szpilman

Polish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor (1911–2000)

Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on his autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw.