Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: -I bless you. You'll survive this horror. You'll become a great pianist, and I'll be very proud of you.-
Born in 1917 into a musical Jewish family in Warsaw, Filar began playing the piano when he was four. He performed his first public concert at the age of six. At twelve he played with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and went on to study with the great Polish pianist and teacher Zbigniew Drzewiecki at the State Conservatory of Music.
After the German...
Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: -I bless you. You'll ...
