The family hid under straw in a cellar for five days, then emerged to find all their belongings looted and Spivakovsky's prized grand piano thrown from their fifth-floor balcony and smashed in the street.
The family hid under straw in a cellar of their Polish Catholic landlord for five days. When they emerged they found all their belongings had been looted and Spivakovsky's grand piano had been thrown from their fifth-floor balcony and smashed in the street.