00000cam a22000003a 4500 UP-99796217613218010 Buklod 20200109162131.0 m |o d | ta 070327s2007 nyua rb |001 0deng d 9780393333060 (pbk.) (iLib)UPD-00429665771 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA JED WIQ C#P YDXCP BUR DLC UCWS eng D 804.66 Z33 A25 2007 Ackerman, Diane 1948- The zookeeper's wife Diane Ackerman. 1st ed. New York W.W. Norton c2007. 368 pages ill. 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) 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 Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' 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. Read less UCWS-3398g donated by Adrienne Maguddayao - December 2019 Żabiński, Jan 1897-1974. Żabińska, Antonina. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Poland Warsaw Case studies. Zoo keepers Poland Warsaw Case studies. Warsaw (Poland) |x Ethnic relations. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012635.html FO UPD UCWS D 804.66 Z33 A25 2007 Book