Crime | Holocaust Polanski Rape Happened at Nicholson's Pad And other things you didn't know about the fugitive director By Kevin Spak Posted Oct 2, 2009 4:26 PM CDT Copied Polanski may be a rapist, but he's also a Holocaust survivor. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) Think you know everything about Roman Polanski? You’re probably wrong. AskMen.com compiles a list of surprising tidbits about the headline-grabbing statutory rapist: It happened at Jack Nicholson’s house: Somehow lost in the hubbub was the fact that the crime took place at Nicholson’s home, where Polanski took victim Samantha Geimer after a photo shoot. He’s a Holocaust survivor: Polanski and his family were imprisoned in Poland’s infamous Krakow ghetto. He escaped through some cut wires before the Jews there were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. He once testified in British court by video link: He filed a libel suit in Britain, but couldn’t go there because of its extradition treaty with the US. He judged a Miss Universe pageant: He helped choose the pageant’s first Israeli winner. Read These Next JD Vance's war skepticism is becoming an issue. 'Miracle fruit' is helping chemo patients taste again. North Korea just reportedly fired 10 missiles toward the sea. First, Razzie's shame Hollywood's worst. Report an error