TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackerman,Diane
TI  - The zookeeper's wife
SN  - 9780393061727
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Żabiński, Jan,
KW  - Żabińska, Antonina.
KW  - Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
KW  - Poland
KW  - Warsaw
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Zoo keepers
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Jews
KW  - Rescue
KW  - Warsaw (Poland)
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index; 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 Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts
N2  - 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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