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The zookeeper's wife : a war story

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.Edition: 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:
  • D804.66.Z33 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 �Zabi�nski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the �Zabi�nskis' 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 Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 940.53 ACK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000503890

Book includes Reading Group guide [5 p.] following the text.

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 �Zabi�nski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the �Zabi�nskis' 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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