The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393061727
- 0393061728
- 9780739495797
- 0739495798
- 9780393333060 tpb
- 039333306X tpb
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Case studies
- Zoo keepers -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Case studies
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 940.5318 A182 | Available | 33111008597730 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. 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.With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.
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 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.
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....