(Mindaugas Kulbis / AP) The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant on the ... that would be leveled by a direct hit from a German bomb. The baby’s first day of life would be the hospital’s last.

he managed to escape from the ghetto and hide out in Warsaw until the war’s end. We first see him in 1939, not quite 30, playing Chopin during a radio broadcast interrupted by German bombing.