Wladyslaw Szpilman had a pacific and successful life before the Nazis invaded his homeland, Poland in 1939. Szpilman was born on December 5, 1911, in Sosnowiec, Poland. He was part of a large family of six. He grew up next to his two sisters, Halina and Regina, and one brother named Henryk. All of them descended from the married couple, Samuel and Edwarda Szpilman. (Szpilman, W., and Wilm Hosenfeld. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45. …show more content…
Luckley Szpilman went back to playing piano in Warsaw and was able to publish a book titled “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw” which the film was based off. As shown, “The Pianist” was a very accurate film pertaining to Szpilman’s story and the problems and wars occurring in Poland. For instance, the movie stated many facts about the German invasion, the economic, and social problems many Jews faced such as the amount of money they were limited to and the actions taken by Jews to fight