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He was taken prisoner by the Red Army and died in Soviet captivity in 1952. In October 2007, Hosenfeld was posthumously honoured by Lech Kaczyński, the President of Poland, with a Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
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Feb 3, 2022 · In 1950, Szpilman finally learned the name of the officer who helped him. But it was too late to save Hosenfeld. The officer died in 1952, locked away in a Soviet prison. The cause of death was likely torture. Wilm Hosenfeld’s Legacy In Recent Years. Throughout the war, Wilm Hosenfeld likely saved the lives of 60 people, many of them Jewish.
In 1952, Hosenfeld died after a series of strokes in a Soviet prison. Hosenfeld was honored by Yad Vashem with the "Righteous Among the Nations" distinction on November 25, 2008.
It was there that Hosenfeld found him in mid-November 1944, and helped him survive during the critical final weeks before liberation. In January 1945 Hosenfeld was taken prisoner by the Soviets. Five years later, on 7 May 1950 a military tribunal in Minsk sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
Aug 11, 2022 · Tragically, Wilm Hosenfeld died in a Soviet POW camp on August 13, 1952 having suffered a ruptured thoracic aorta. Wolf Biermann wrote about Wilm’s sad death: “He had been tortured in captivity… he then suffered several cerebral strokes.
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Feb 16, 2009 · 16 February 2009. The German officer made famous in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film “The Pianist” has been posthumously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. Wilm Hosenfeld was drafted into the Wermacht shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He was stationed in Poland; from July 1940 he was based in Warsaw.
Jul 31, 2018 · On February 19, 2009, Wilm Hosenfeld was belatedly and posthumously awarded the title Rightheous among the Peoples by Yad Vashem. This because he saved Szpilman and Leon Warm. On June 19, 2009, the award was officially received by Detlev Hosenfeld, one of Wilm Hosenfeld's son.
