02384cam a2200433Ia 4500 22349 22349 227016807 OCoLC 20190606190038.0 080501r20082007nyuaf 001 0ceng d 9780755365036 (OCoLC)227016807 (OCoLC)247968893 BTCTA BTCTA BAKER YDXCP JBU OCLCQ CD5 CWS NDI TMJ B2A KEC NYP NYPP D804.66.Z33 A25 2013 DS134.64 A25 2013 940.53/18350943841 A 940.5318 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. 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. rbf CD MARS D804.66.Z33 DS134.64 lcc BOOK D 804.66 .Z33 A25 2013 m 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2019-05-28 Library of the Year Awards 2018 15.00 AUA25112 0 D 804.66 .Z33 A25 2013 AUA25112 2019-05-28 00:00:00 15.00 2019-05-28 BOOK