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Biblioteka Instytutu Józefa Piłsudskiego w Ameryce
Library of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America		 Biblioteka imienia Alfreda Jurzykowskiego Polskiego Instytutu Naukowego w Ameryce
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Library of the Kosciuszko Foundation

The pianist : the extraordinary true story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 / Władysław Szpilman ; with extracts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld ; foreword by Andrzej Szpilman ; epilogue by Wolf Biermann ; translated by Anthea Bell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Publication details: New York : Picador, 2003, c1999.Edition: 2nd Picador pbk. edDescription: 222 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0312311354 (pbk.)
  • 9780312311353 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Śmierć miasta. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18/092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • DS135.P63 S94713 2003
Summary: A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
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Translation of: Śmierć miasta.

A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."

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