The best moments in reading are when you come across something that you'd thought special, particular to you, and here it is, set down by someone else, It's as if a hand has come out...and taken yours.
The story of a man who is not a hero, and whose survival depended on sheer chance and the mercy of the enemies. Only a real survivor of WWII (Polanski & Szpillman) would tell such a story, without binary good/evil, and with such restraint.