02065cam a2200325 4500 76529338 TxAuBib 20100707120000.0 070327s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007012635 9780393061727 0393061728 TxAuBib Ackerman, Diane. The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2007. 368 pages : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 Zabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabińskis' 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. 20100707. 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. Holocaust, 1933-1945 Poland Warsaw. Warsaw (Poland) Ethnic relations. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012635.html Connect to: Table of contents only - All users