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090    D804.66.Z33 |bA25 2007
100 1  Ackerman, Diane, |d1948-
245 14 The zookeeper's wife / |cDiane Ackerman.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bW.W. Norton, |c[2007]
264  4  |c©2007
300    368 pages : |billustrations ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index.
520    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 Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' 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.
530     Electronic version(s) available online.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Żabiński, Jan, |d1897-1974.
600 10 Żabińska, Antonina.
650  0 Jews |zPoland |zWarsaw.
650  0 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust |zPoland |zWarsaw.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland |zWarsaw.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJews |xRescue |zPoland |zWarsaw.
650  0 Zoo keepers |zPoland |zWarsaw.
651  0 Warsaw (Poland) |xEthnic relations.
856 41  |3Electronic version(s) available.  |zHosted by Internet Archive  |u https://archive.org/details/zookeeperswife00acke
856 42  |3Table of contents only |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012635.html
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