Paperback, 241 pages
English language
Published May 27, 2000 by Thorndike Pr.
The Pianist
The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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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."
Subjects
- History
- Jews
- General
- Biography / Autobiography
- Poland
- Jewish musicians
- Biography/Autobiography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Historical
- Composers & Musicians - Classical Instrumentalists
- Biography
- Personal narratives
- Warsaw