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Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish musician, published an autobiographical book titled "The Pianist" about his experience in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1946.
In 2002, Roman Polansky brought the book to life on-screen with Adrien Brody starring as the piano player who narrowly survived the Holocaust.
"Szpilman's recollections, published shortly after the war, offer, like other such books, a deeply paradoxical impression of the Holocaust. Accounts of survival, that is, are both representative and anomalous; they at once record this all but unimaginable historical catastrophe and, without intentional mendacity or inaccuracy, distort it," A.O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.