Since 1933, when Hitler became the most powerful man in Germany (he was chosen to be prime-minister and president at the same time), the faithfate of the jews seemed to be defined. Their perspectives were the worst. Anyone that have read the book written by the german “fuhrer” (“Mein Kampf”) would foresee the persecutions and humiliations that would be applied to the jewish community, at least inside Germany. Aware that the nazi's objectives included territorial expansion and the quest for the “vital space” (ways of obtaining low cost labor, supplies such as minerals and food, new areas for investment and major consuming markets), actions that were being done since Germany invested against Austria and Tchecoslovakia, the situation of the jews that lived in the neighbour countries was also turning out to be delicate. A german anexation or invasion would represent, on a practical basis, the submission to violences and the worst living conditions. The invasion of Poland in September of 1939 confirmed the worst prognosis. The Polish and specially the Jews were locked in ghettos and later on transferred to concentration or extermination camps. On a practical basis it meant that these people lost their properties and their money; they were installed in places that had the worst conditions (no heating system, no current water, dirt all over…); Jews and other prisoners were used as slave labor; everyone separated from their families (most of them would never see their relatives again); and many violent acts were commited against all of them (from beating up a person for small mistakes to brutal murders in front of the other prisoners to establish fear among them). How can someone survive to these losses and agressions? In what way the prisoners could resist without the support of their families being exhausted by the slave labor and being fed with quantities of food lower than human beings needs? What hope could they have if they didn't know what was going on outside in the warfront? The movie “The Pianist”, from director Roman Polanski, put us in a very unusual situation regarding the history of the Second World War. A very particular story, from a known artist, that shows the enormous difficulties of war and how someone can turn out to be a mad man or use the art to survive, to resist. Wladyslaw Szpilman, a famous pianist in Poland at that time suffered the worst happenings that were possible, saw his relatives being sent to places that he knew meant death, was beaten and threatened of death, realized slave labor and had to hid himself from the racial hate of the nazis in his own country. It could only become a great and awarded movie…