The Zookeeper's wife :
Ackerman, Diane, 1948-
The Zookeeper's wife : a war story / Diane Ackerman. - London : Headline, c2013. - xii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Includes reading group guide.
Includes bibliographical references 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 ��abi��ski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the ��abi��skis' 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.
9780755365036
Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974.
Żabińska, Antonina.
Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Warsaw--Case studies.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland--Warsaw.
Zoo keepers--Poland--Warsaw--Case studies.
Warsaw (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
D804.66.Z33 / A25 2013 DS134.64 / A25 2013
940.53/18350943841 / A
The Zookeeper's wife : a war story / Diane Ackerman. - London : Headline, c2013. - xii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Includes reading group guide.
Includes bibliographical references 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 ��abi��ski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the ��abi��skis' 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.
9780755365036
Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974.
Żabińska, Antonina.
Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Warsaw--Case studies.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland--Warsaw.
Zoo keepers--Poland--Warsaw--Case studies.
Warsaw (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
D804.66.Z33 / A25 2013 DS134.64 / A25 2013
940.53/18350943841 / A