Book is by Wladyslaw Szpilman, catagorised as non-fiction, autobiography, first published in 1946, in Warsaw.

Hosenfield was tortured and after several strokes, died in a prisoner of war camp under the Soviets. They didn't believe his story about rescuing a Jew.

He started out as a teacher, and by his sons' account, a very gentle one, he didn't beat his pupils. He once tried to save a boy from being shot after stealing an armful of hay from a barn. The SS were about to shoot the boy, Hosenfield told them they couldn't do it, and the SS said they would shoot him and the boy too... His son tells the story, and says it took him a long time to recover from the threat. Szpilman wasn't the only person that Hosenfield rescued from death.

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