Hebrew school and middle school were where I learned about the murders of six million Jews during the Holocaust. It’s always ...

In 1939, when Warsaw had been taken over by Nazis, Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman fights for survival as his life is unraveling. Committed to being pushed out of Warsaw into the Warsaw ...

‘The Pianist’ Shatters the Myth of Heroic Survival Brody's portrayal is marked by an almost paradoxical detachment. He does not play Szpilman as a hero actively outsmarting the Nazis ...

THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE tells the true and inspirational story of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish musician whose dreams are interrupted by the Nazi regime. In this poignant and inspiring one-woman ...

The Pianist tells of the oppression that began in the 1930’s when the Nazis began their horrific persecution of the Jewish population. The play focuses on the Szpilmans, a close-knit family of ...

Falsettos', 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' Playwright Was 73 The Pianist tells the true story of Szpilman, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Warsaw in World War II. The 2002 film ...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a ...

For the last 15 years, New York pianist Jeanne Golan has been recording and performing the works of composers persecuted by the Nazis as part of what has come to be known as the recovered voices ...

After The Pianist wrapped and Brody won his Oscar ... Brody will next star in The Brutalist about artist Lázsló Tóth, who escaped Nazi-occupied Europe during the Holocaust.

One of them was Roman Polanski's “The Pianist,” which tells the true story of Jewish musician Władysław Szpilman whose art helped him survive in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. “I found it hard to ...

Polanski's The Pianist tells about Szpilman's adventurous escape from certain death in the camps. He was noted by a music-loving Nazi officer who hid the pianist and brought him food.