The Spiritual Triumph of Wladyslaw Szpilman: Resistance in the Face of Tragedy
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THESIS
In 1943, amidst the tragedy of the Holocaust, renowned pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman of Polish and Jewish descent hid from the Nazis in the ruins of Warsaw. Despite the dire threat to his life, he continued creating music and joined the resistance. Regarded as a national hero, his triumphant spirit in the face of adversity remains an inspiration through his memoirs and compositions.
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“They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.” |
“ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
-War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867
-"A Soviet-era stamp depicts a scene from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace." 1867 -The Conversation