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Ackerman, Diane.

The zookeeper's wife / - Unabridged. - North Kingstown, R.I. : BBC Audiobooks America, �2007. - 9 audio discs (10 hr., 57 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 105700

"Sound library." Compact discs.

Read by Suzanne Toren.

When Germany invaded Poland, 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 the 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 and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her.--

ISBN: 9780792750185 0792750187 9781602834774 1602834776

Standard No.: 883761834776

Publisher. No.: SLD 1164 Sound Library ZPaip3 Blackstone Audiobooks

Source: Midwest Tape http://www.midwesttapes.com

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1939 - 1945

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Warsaw.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland--Warsaw.
Zoo keepers--Poland--Warsaw.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Warsaw (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

LC Class. No.: DS134.64 / .A25 2007b

Dewey Class. No.: 940.53/18350943841