Oddity Friendship Poem by Clinton Siegle

The Pianist is a story written by Wladyslaw Szpilman a famous song composer, radio jingle writer, and composer of over 300 songs in Poland about the occupation and life of a Warsaw Jew between 1939 and 1945. The book was originally written in the 1960 and was wanted by many publishers to explain what happened during that time. However, due to communist politics, the book was not reprinted until 1999 with an update/revision made by his son Andrezer Szpilman. The beginning part to the story is talking about Wladyslaw depression over living inside the ghetto. Due to the war, his family had sold everything they had. Due to his famous ability to play the piano, he found a job at café within the walls of the ghetto. The daily travels between his home and the wall created around the ghetto to keep the Jews in showed many small stories. The two most memorable is his tale of a young smuggler being caught by a German police and stamped to death by breaking his spine. The other is Mr. Szpilman view of how the rich Judaic people lived differently than the poor Jewish people that survived on donations from Polish people trying to help them.