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050 4 _aD804.66.Z33
_bA25 2013
050 4 _aDS134.64
_bA25 2013
082 0 4 _a940.53/18350943841
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091 _a940.5318
100 1 _aAckerman, Diane,
_d1948-
245 1 4 _aThe Zookeeper's wife :
_ba war story /
_cDiane Ackerman.
260 _aLondon :
_bHeadline,
_cc2013.
300 _axii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c20 cm
500 _aIncludes reading group guide.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aThe 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.
600 1 0 _aŻabiński, Jan,
_d1897-1974.
600 1 0 _aŻabińska, Antonina.
650 0 _aJews
_zPoland
_zWarsaw.
650 0 _aRighteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
_zPoland
_zWarsaw
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
_zPoland
_zWarsaw.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xJews
_xRescue
_zPoland
_zWarsaw.
650 0 _aZoo keepers
_zPoland
_zWarsaw
_vCase studies.
651 0 _aWarsaw (Poland)
_xEthnic relations.
901 _arbf
_bCD
901 _aMARS
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908 4 _aDS134.64
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_cBOOK
_hD 804.66 .Z33
_iA25 2013
946 _am