Cover of Śmierć Miasta

Śmierć Miasta

Pamiętniki Władysława Szpilmana, 1939–1945

by Władysław Szpilman

1999 234 pages eng ★ 4.4 (9 ratings)

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 gr…

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