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The Zookeeper's wife : a war story / Diane Ackerman

By: Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21cmISBN:
  • 9780393333060 (pbk.)
  • 039333306X (pbk.)
  • 9780393061727
  • 9781439560013
  • 1439560013
  • 0393061728
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18350943841 A
LOC classification:
  • DS134.64 .A25 2008
Contents:
Author's note -- Zookeeper's wife -- Details -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks DS134.64 .A25 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001387074

Book includes reading book guide [5 p.]

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and index

Author's note -- Zookeeper's wife -- Details -- Bibliography -- 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

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