Recordant Szpilman... i Hosenfeld / Remembering Szpilman... and Hosenfeld
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
A les golfes d'aquest bloc de pisos, aleshores abandonat i mig cremat, s'hi amagà a finals de 1944 Wladislaw Szpilman, el protagonista real de El Pianista (2002), de Roman Polanski. Fou aquí on el descobrí el capità de la Wehrmacht Wilm Hosenfeld. En comptes de entregar-lo a les SS, Hosenfeld ocultà la seva existencia i li proporcionà menjar, entre novembre i desembre de 1944. Al gener de 1945, Varsòvia i Szpilman foren alliberats, però el propi Hosenfeld fou fet presoner pels sovietics i enviat a camps de presoners a Minsk i Stalingrad, on morí el 1952, tot i els intents de Szpilman perquè l'alliberessin. Aquest bloc d'apartaments, a Aleja Niepodległości 217-225, compta també amb una placa rememorant els fets de 1944 entre Szpilman i Hosenfeld.
Aquesta foto forma part de tot un viatge pel centre de Polònia, enfocat especialment en els més tragics moments del Holocaust i la II Guerra Mundial, que esclafà Polonia com pocs llocs, però que alhora contrasta amb l'increible renaixement del país fins al moment actual.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_pianista_(pel%C2%B7l%C3%ADcula_de_2002)
war-documentary.info/wladyslaw-szpilman-warsaw/
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In the attic of this apartment block, then abandoned and half-burnt, Wladislaw Szpilman, the real-life protagonist of Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), hid in late 1944. It was here that Wehrmacht captain Wilm Hosenfeld discovered him. Instead of handing him over to the SS, Hosenfeld hid his existence and provided him with food between November and December 1944. In January 1945, Warsaw and Szpilman were liberated, but Hosenfeld himself was taken prisoner by the Soviets and sent to prison camps in Minsk and Stalingrad, where he died in 1952, despite Szpilman's attempts to have him released. This apartment block, at Aleja Niepodległości 217-225, also has a plaque commemorating the 1944 events between Szpilman and Hosenfeld.
This photo is part of a trip through central Poland, focused especially on the most tragic moments of the Holocaust and World War II, which devastated Poland like few places, but which at the same time contrasts with the incredible rebirth of the country up to the present day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pianist_(2002_film)
Recordant Szpilman... i Hosenfeld / Remembering Szpilman... and Hosenfeld
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
A les golfes d'aquest bloc de pisos, aleshores abandonat i mig cremat, s'hi amagà a finals de 1944 Wladislaw Szpilman, el protagonista real de El Pianista (2002), de Roman Polanski. Fou aquí on el descobrí el capità de la Wehrmacht Wilm Hosenfeld. En comptes de entregar-lo a les SS, Hosenfeld ocultà la seva existencia i li proporcionà menjar, entre novembre i desembre de 1944. Al gener de 1945, Varsòvia i Szpilman foren alliberats, però el propi Hosenfeld fou fet presoner pels sovietics i enviat a camps de presoners a Minsk i Stalingrad, on morí el 1952, tot i els intents de Szpilman perquè l'alliberessin. Aquest bloc d'apartaments, a Aleja Niepodległości 217-225, compta també amb una placa rememorant els fets de 1944 entre Szpilman i Hosenfeld.
Aquesta foto forma part de tot un viatge pel centre de Polònia, enfocat especialment en els més tragics moments del Holocaust i la II Guerra Mundial, que esclafà Polonia com pocs llocs, però que alhora contrasta amb l'increible renaixement del país fins al moment actual.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_pianista_(pel%C2%B7l%C3%ADcula_de_2002)
war-documentary.info/wladyslaw-szpilman-warsaw/
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In the attic of this apartment block, then abandoned and half-burnt, Wladislaw Szpilman, the real-life protagonist of Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), hid in late 1944. It was here that Wehrmacht captain Wilm Hosenfeld discovered him. Instead of handing him over to the SS, Hosenfeld hid his existence and provided him with food between November and December 1944. In January 1945, Warsaw and Szpilman were liberated, but Hosenfeld himself was taken prisoner by the Soviets and sent to prison camps in Minsk and Stalingrad, where he died in 1952, despite Szpilman's attempts to have him released. This apartment block, at Aleja Niepodległości 217-225, also has a plaque commemorating the 1944 events between Szpilman and Hosenfeld.
This photo is part of a trip through central Poland, focused especially on the most tragic moments of the Holocaust and World War II, which devastated Poland like few places, but which at the same time contrasts with the incredible rebirth of the country up to the present day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pianist_(2002_film)