Given name: Unknown Family name: Szałas

Radiotechnician; he was introduced to Szpilman as a confidential underground activist and was supposed to protect Szpilman. He appeared to be a strange protector; he dropped in once in 10 days with a shred of food, saying that he didn't have money to buy more and that belongings, which Szpilman gave him for sale, had been stolen.