Marian Filar. Born 1917, Warsaw, Poland. concert pianist, retired professor at Temple University. Marian Filar escaped the Holocaust and went on to be an accomplished pianist and teacher. His memoir, From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall, has been published by University of Mississippi Press, 2003.
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