The zookeeper's wife
by Diane Ackerman
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The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes--and keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.--From publisher description
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Jews, Zoo keepers, Ethnic relations, Case studies, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Rescue, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Holocaust, 1933-1945, Jews, poland, Righteous gentiles in the holocaust, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), World war, 1939-1945, jews, Warsaw (poland), history, World war, 1939-1945, poland, World War II, Eastern, Holocaust, Military, HISTORY, Large type books, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2008-09-28, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Ethnic & race relationsPlaces
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The time is 1939 and the place is Poland, homeland of Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski. The Warsaw Zoo flourishes under Jan's stewardship and Antonina's care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. The Zabinskis covertly begin working with the Resistance and put into action plans to save the lives of hundreds from what has become the Warsaw Ghetto.
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