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Wilm Hosenfeld

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Wilhelm Hosenfeld (1895-1952), German Army officer, who helped to hide or rescue several Poles, including Jews, in Nazi-occupied Poland, and is perhaps most remembered for helping Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944.

In June 2009 he was posthumously recognized as a Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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So lovely to see this in colour! He was a great man, and I'm both saddened and angered to think he died in the way he did. :(