Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) was a major star on Polish State Radio in the 1930s. In September 1939, during a live broadcast, he was perfoming Chopin's Nocture in C Sharp Minow when the sudio was bombed. Narrowly escaping deportiation and the death caps, he survived with the help of Polish friends and was ulitamtely spared by a German officer who heard him play the same Nocturne in his hiding place.After the war, Szpilman resumed his career at Polish State Radio, coming back on the air once ag...