Polish-Jewish singer Wiera Gran was quoted as saying the subject of the Oscar-winning film was a member of the Jewish police in the Warsaw ghetto The family of Władysław Szpilman, the man whose story ...

A wide range of personal items belonging to Władysław Szpilman, the famous Polish pianist and composer of Jewish origin whose war-time plight was made by Roman Polanski into the Oscar-winning film ...

The priciest item on the list of Władysław Szpilman’s objects is a Steinway piano, which is estimated to fetch as much as $70,000. (JTA) — A Polish auction house has announced the sale of 51 objects ...

In 2002, famed director Roman Polanski delivered a haunting tale of a Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman. The musician lived in Nazi-occupied Germany where the rest of his family had all been killed.

A 1937 Steinway grand piano which belonged to the famous Polish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman - whose war-time plight was made by Roman Polanski into the Oscar-winning film “The Pianist” - ...

The family of Władysław Szpilman, the man whose story inspired Roman Polanski’s Academy Award-winning 2002 movie The Pianist, has won an appeal over claims that he was a Nazi collaborator. Szpilman’s ...