List of Famous people born in Hünfeld, Germany

Wilm Hosenfeld

Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld
First Name Wilm
Born on May 2, 1895
Died on August 13, 1952 (aged 57)
Born in Germany, Hesse, Hünfeld

Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld, originally a school teacher, was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War had risen to the rank of Hauptmann (Captain). He helped to hide or rescue several Polish people, including Jews, in Nazi-German occupied Poland, and helped Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944, an act which was portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist. He was taken prisoner by the Red Army and died in Soviet captivity in 1952.

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