Ebook: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Author: Ackerman Diane
- Tags: Ethnic relations, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Warsaw, Zoo keepers, Zoo keepers--Poland--Warsaw, Case studies, Audiobooks, Downloadable audiobooks, Żabiński Jan -- 1897-1974, Żabińska Antonina, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Case studies, Zoo keepers -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Case studies, Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations, Poland -- Warsaw
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition: Movie Tie-in Editions
- Language: English
- epub
The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story—sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism. Winner of the 2008 Orion Award.