During the increasingly frequent air raids, the pianist hid in cellars and dug anti-tank ditches on the outskirts of the city. The Szpilmans moved in with friends living on a lower floor. Nevertheless, Władysław and his father and brother decided to stay with their family. Soon the evacuation of all men to the other back of the Vistula was announced. Over the next few days, the front moved closer to Warsaw. Szpilman went to the Polish Radio offices, hoping to learn more about the situation, but the chaos on the spot made it impossible. His mother finally woke him, saying that war had broken out. On 1 September, in the morning, he heard distant explosions, but he thought they were military exercises. Władysław was working for the Polish Radio and, on his way home in the evenings, he often observed Warsaw’s preparations for the impending war with Germany. In 1939, Władysław Szpilman resided in the center of Warsaw on Śliska Street with his parents, Samuel and Edwarda, his brother Henryk and his two sisters – Regina and Halina. How did he survive in German-occupied Warsaw? Władysław Szpilman is currently the most well-known of the Warsaw Robinsons.
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