TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackerman,Diane
TI  - The Zookeeper's wife: a war story 
SN  - 9780393333060 (pbk.)
AV  - DS134.64 .A25  2008
U1  - 940.53/18350943841 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - ZÌabinÌski, Jan,
KW  - ZÌabinÌska, Antonina
KW  - Jews
KW  - Poland
KW  - Warsaw
KW  - Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Rescue
KW  - Zoo keepers
KW  - Warsaw (Poland)
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Book includes reading book guide [5 p.]; Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and index; Author's note -- Zookeeper's wife -- Details -- Bibliography -- 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 ¿»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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