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How Did Szpilman Live During The Holocaust
The Pianist
In this essay I will talk about Wladyslaw Szpilman, he was a Jewish pianist that lived during the World War II, he suffered a lot because the Nazis were persecuting the Jewish people, I would like to describe how he lived and how was the situation during the Jewish Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a massive murder of the Jewish, this was ordered by Adolf Hitler who was from Germany and was the Nazi leader, it is said that he killed around six million Jews from around Europe but during this holocaust he also order the killing of other groups. The Germans started persecuting the Jews in 1941, but persecution was started by Hitler in 1931 he decided to persecute groups and separated them under the Numberg laws to exclude the Jews from
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The Jewish people can´t have more that 2,000 zlotys so they were trying to hide the rest of the money they had. Szpilman went to get a coffee with Datora but it Said Jewish Forgiven. The German people said that all the Jewish people needed to move to a town called Warsaw at 31 October of 1940. They didn´t had money so they were selling books at the street. A friend of Szpilman offered him to be some Jewish police but he refuses to help the Germans, because the Germans killed a lot of people in front of him, so he was very sad. 15 March 1942 he started working. 16 August 1942 they were talking about the concentration camps and they were going to the labor camps but the friend that was Jewish police saved just Szpilman, he was sad because his family died on the labor camps, he went back to the coffee bar where he found his boss and they hide there for 2 days, the Germans killed his boss. The Germans made him work, the Jewish people were planning to make a rebellion, so a friend he knew at work gave him weapons to start it. Szpilman had some friends that could help him to scape, so he escaped and went with them, they helped him, they gave him food and shelter, but they needed to go so they told other friend if he could help him and he gave him 2 apartments, he also gave Szpilman an extra direction just in emergency. They discovered him, so he went to the emergency address where he found Datora and she also helped him. 19 April 1943 the Jewish people started their rebellion, they fought months until the Germans almost destroyed the building, the Germans killed all the Jews in that building. He went to a las apartment where

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