02915cam a2200445 i 4500 416607354 TxAuBib 20180613120000.0 070327|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007012635 9780393061727 0393061728 9780739495797 0739495798 9780393333060 039333306X (OCoLC)122291559 DLC eng rda DLC BAKER BTCTA JED WIQ C#P YDXCP BUR LMR IXA VP@ XXH SMP CQU GZG WAU TXCAP GTA Y38 BDX ATSHR OCLCF SDA JYJ CNMKV OCLCO OCLCQ OCL OCLCO ISL OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ TXCWF ITD GK8 NDS LNC UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Ackerman, Diane, 1948- The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, [2007] ©0. 368 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.. 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. 20180613. ¿?abi¿?ski, Jan 1897-1974. ¿?abi¿?ska, Antonina. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Poland Warsaw Case studies. Zoo keepers Poland Warsaw Case studies. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Poland Warsaw. Warsaw (Poland) Ethnic relations. Biographies. Case studies.