Wilm Hosenfeld

Who was Wilm Hosenfeld?

Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld, originally a teacher, was a German Army officer who rose to the rank of Hauptmann by the end of the war. He helped to hide or rescue several Polish, including Jews, in Nazi-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 June 2009, he was posthumously recognized as a Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.