Gutowski, Gene

found: IMDb, Oct. 28, 2009(Gene Gutowski; b. May 7, 1925, Poland; producer, writer, self)

found: Internet Movie Database WWW site, November 20, 2015:(Gene Gutowski, producer, writer ; b. Witold Bardach, May 7, 1925 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine])

found: Washington post WWW site, viewed May 12, 2016(Gene Gutowski, a Polish American Holocaust survivor who produced three films that helped bring director Roman Polanski to international prominence in the 1960s and who reunited with him decades later for the Holocaust drama "The Pianist," died May 10 [2016] in Warsaw; he was 90; born Witold Bardach on July 26, 1925, in Lwow, Poland (today Lviv in Ukraine); when he was being hunted by the Nazis for stealing the radio equipment, he was given shelter by his Polish girlfriend's mother; she provided him with the documents of a worker, Eugeniusz Gutowski, who had died in an accident; after making a name for himself as Gene Gutowski, he never considered returning to his original name)

found: LC database, May 12, 2016(hdg.: Gutowski, Gene; usage: Gene Gutowski; associated resources include autobiography in English)