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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 20 > Israel’s Yad Vashem pays tribute to German officer who saved ‘The Pianist’

Israel’s Yad Vashem pays tribute to German officer who saved ‘The Pianist’

By David Rising and Mary Lane / The Bulletin
June 20, 2009

BERLIN — German officer Wilhelm “Wilm” Hosenfeld saved two Jews from the Nazi Holocaust, including Wladyslaw Szpilman, whose story was the basis of the Oscar-winning film “The Pianist.” But he died in obscurity in a Soviet prison after World War....

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