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(HOLOCAUST). WŁADYSŁAW SZPILMAN & Jerzy Waldorff. Śmierć Miasta [“Death of the City.”] FIRST EDITION. Text in Polish. Inscription on half-title. pp. 204, (4). Few stains. Original color pictorial wrappers, some wear. 8vo. Warsaw, Wiedza, 1946.     Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000) was a Polish-Jewish pianist and classical composer who survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. This memoir of his was suppressed by Polish Communist authorities for decades. In 1998, Szpilman's son Andrzej Szpilman republished his father's work, first in German as Das wunderbare Überleben (”The Miraculous Survival”) and then in English as ”The Pianist.” It was later published in more than 30 languages.     In 2002, Roman Polanski directed a screen version, also called The Pianist, which won three Academy Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Film Award, and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.      See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pianist_(memoir).