I have to wonder?

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2006)

In the scene where his family is loaded into the train cars and the Jewish/police officer just pulls him out of the line ... they HAD a history together. Who then suddenly pulls him out of the line for no reason? He had played piano for a wealthy Jew in the Ghetto, who he later accidentally 'learns' bribed a guard.
Does anyone else wonder if he didn't bribe someone as well, and was told to go where to hide with the restaurant owner? Is he really as innocent as he claims?
Obviously he survived a great deal, and his story should be told - but I do wonder if at some point while he worked at the restaurant did he not pay for, or have the restaurant owner pay for his 'escape' as well?
He lost his whole family, but at some point while in the ghetto he had to have known he would need a 'hiding' place and to pay off people too. As when he saved his brother Henrick - he MUST have paid the Jewish policeman SOMETHING to get him out?
Just a question. Obviously, one will never know the WHOLE truth. But, I wonder did he survive the Labor camps through a payoff w/his restaurant boss ... it seems too coincidental to me. He obviously had to make a choice of "me and not my family ... do I want to live?" I somehow don't believe this particular part of the story -- where he's suddenly pulled aside and saved ... and happens upon the restaurant owner by accident. Who would blame him for his choice ... but for the fact that he was portrayed as oh, so loyal to his family?
BTW: I love this movie and have seen it at least 1/2 dozen times. But, I still wonder ... did he or didn't he make a pay-off to save himself, and couldn't afford, or found it impossible to afford to save the rest of his family?