Daily News | A local Holocaust survivor’s story of love and the power of music makes its Philly debut
A musical child prodigy, he was a teen growing up in Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland. After his parents and younger brother were murdered, Wisnia was sent to Auschwitz.
Once his Nazi captors realized he had such a beautiful voice, they made him perform. He believed it helped him stay alive. Despite all that he endured and witnessed, Wisnia would later call himself a privileged prisoner.Wisnia was 17 when he and another prisoner, Helen Spitzer, who he called Zippi, managed to have a clandestine love affair at the death camp. Older at 25, Spitzer was a graphic designer. In their moments alone, they sang to each other.
Each went on to find separate new lives of love, marriage, family, and purpose.And through it all, it was music and his inspired voice that saw Wisnia through.He and his grandfather performed together and enjoyed a close relationship.family members learned things about Wisnia’s life he had never shared.the documentary on his life and a collection of some of those unknown facts, will receive its Philadelphia premiere Thursday, April 13, the last night of Passover, at 6 p.m.
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