Wilm Hosenfeld

Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld (; 2 May 1895 – 13 August 1952) was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War was promoted to Hauptmann (Captain). 

He helped to hide or rescue several Polish people, including Jews, in Nazi-German occupied Poland, and helped Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944.

In October 2007, Hosenfeld was honored by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński with a Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. 

Other websites
Wilm Hosenfeld, A Man Of courage
– The story of Wilm Hosenfeld
Comment on Hosenfeld in conjunction with Roman Polanski's filmThe Pianist
Page on Wilm Hosenfeld and The Pianist on the website of Hosenfeld's grandson
 "Dziennik" 13 Oct. 2007  re posthumous award of Polonia Restituta – In Polish
Wilm Hosenfeld at Yad Vashem website

Category:1895 births
Category:1952 deaths
Category:Deaths from aortic dissection
Category:SS officers
Category:World War II people
Category:Righteous Among the Nations