It later became a symbol for Holocaust survivors, used by Polish director Roman Polanski in The Pianist, a film based on the memoir of Jewish-Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman, who recounted the ...

He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can whatever this thing is save a person's life? How can it be so ...