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 ...

5 grudnia 1911 r. W Sosnowcu urodził się Władysław Szpilman, kompozytor, pianista. Jego losy w okupowanej przez Niemców ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” - ...

A stage adaptation of The Pianist, based on the Władysław Szpilman memoir that was the source of the Oscar-nominated 2002 film, is being developed by director Emily Mann with an eye toward Broadway.

The family of Holocaust-surviving composer and hero of the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist" will auction his storied silver pocket watch and Steinway grand piano, among other items. Władysław Szpilman ...

September 1, 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the combined Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland, which marked the start of World War II. This episode of SoundsReels explores producer and ...

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 ...