TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackerman,Diane
TI  - The zookeeper's wife
SN  - 9780393061727 (hbk.) :
AV  - D804.66.Z33 A25 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Zabinśki, Jan,,
KW  - Zabinśka, Antonina..
KW  - Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
KW  - Poland
KW  - Warsaw
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Zoo keepers
KW  - Warsaw (Poland)
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and index
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 ·Zabi*nski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the ·Zabi*nskis' 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
ER  -