12018-07-26T20:24:30-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e310403plain2020-08-05T11:02:57-07:00Sosnowiec, PolandDecember 5, 1911July 6, 2000136Warsaw, PolandIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.