In , Polanski was arrested for drugging and raping a year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor in exchange for a probation-only sentence.
The night before his sentencing hearing in , he learned that the judge would likely reject the proffered plea bargain , so he fled the U. He remains a fugitive from the U.
Further allegations of abuse have been made by other women. After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes, surviving the Holocaust by adopting a false identity and concealing his Jewish heritage. In , he moved to the United States and cemented his status in the film industry by directing the horror film Rosemary's Baby He made Macbeth in England and Chinatown back in Hollywood.
Polanski has made 23 feature films to date. Roman Polanski was born on 18 August , in interbellum Paris. Polanski's mother was born in Russia. Her own father was Jewish and mother was a Gentile , but Bula had been raised in the Catholic faith. Annette survived Auschwitz , where her mother was murdered, and left Poland forever for France.
That initiative was soon followed by the requirement that all Jewish children over the age of twelve wear white armbands, with a blue Star of David imprinted, for visual identification. After he was expelled, Polanski would not be allowed to enter another classroom for six years. Polanski's father was transferred, along with thousands of other Jews, to Mauthausen , a group of 49 German concentration camps in Austria.
