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Wilm Hosenfeld
German army officer (–)
Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld (German pronunciation:[ˈvɪl(hɛl)mˈhoːzənfɛlt]; 2 May &#;&#; 13 August ), 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).
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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 , an act which was portrayed in the film The Pianist.
He was taken prisoner by the Red Army and died in Soviet captivity in
In October , Hosenfeld was posthumously honoured by Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland, with a Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
In June , Hosenfeld was posthumously recognized by Yad Vashem (Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust) as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.