The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman & Wilm Hosenfeld

Author:Wladyslaw Szpilman & Wilm Hosenfeld
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: War.World War II, Holocaust, People.Jews and Israel, Genre.War & Military, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, Music, Composers & Musicians, History
ISBN: 9780312263768
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-09-02T21:25:56+00:00

The woman smiled in some embarrassment, pressed close to her companion, and they went on their way in the direction of the market.

That afternoon I managed to borrow fifty zloty from one of the others. I spent it on bread and potatoes. I ate some of the bread and took the rest of it and the potatoes back to the ghetto. I did the first commercial deal of my life that evening. I had paid twenty zloty for the bread; I sold it for fifty in the ghetto. The potatoes had cost three zloty a kilo; I sold them for eighteen. I had enough to eat for the first time in ages, and a little working capital still in hand to make my purchases next day.

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