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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
#UB7712
Hardcover, 368 pages; 2007
$19.96
The Zookeeper's Wife chronicles the remarkable deeds of one brave and kind Christian family in wartime Poland. Antonina Zabinski— the wife of the Warsaw zookeeper—had a loving, almost mystical, connection with the animals in the zoo, where she and her young family lived and worked. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, many of Antonina's beloved animals were killed or stolen. Antonina tended to the animals that remained, and expanded her guardianship to include others in need of her protection. Throughout World War II, the Zabinskis used their home, as well as the devastated zoo grounds, to hide scores of resistance activists and Jews seeking safe harbor. Diane Ackerman creates a vivid, moving, and extraordinarily detailed portrait of every living being who was cared for by the zookeeper's wife.
(CH)
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