Roman Polański

Roman Polanski was born in Paris of Polish parents on 18th August, 1933. When he was three years old, the family moved to Krakow. In 1941, Polanski’s father was deported to the Mauthausen labor camp in Austria and his mother to Auschwitz, from which she never returned. Polanski himself was subsequently taken in by a succession of Polish families. Of this period in his life, Polanski recalls in his autobiography, Roman (1984), “that movies became my ruling passion –… (more)