warsaw

Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman provides an account of his experiences trying to survive in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, and shares excerpts from the diary of a German officer who saved his life.

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Presents a film based on the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and brilliant pianist who sees his family shipped off to Nazi labor camps, and manages to escape and live for years in the ruins of Warsaw with the unlikely help of a sympathetic German officer.

Describes the lives of three Nazi criminals--an SS officer, sergeant, and general--and two Jewish victims--a teenage boy and girl--during the Holocaust, covering events leading up to World War I until their deaths, and featuring photographs that help document and narrate the five lives.

A biography of Janusz Korczak, who went to his death with the Jewish orphans in his care during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II.