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Whenever we think that the history of the Second World War is exhausted and there are no more amazing and important stories to be told, a book like The Zookeeper’s Wife comes along: a moving, unlikely memoir about two zookeepers who risked their lives to smuggle hundreds of Jews into their bombed-out Polish zoo to save them from Nazi persecution.
After German planes devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it—Jan Zabinski and his wife, Antonina, began hiding Jews inside the zoo's empty cages and in their home. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, hid ammunition in the elephant pen, while Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for the refugees, both human and animal. Through Antonina’s detailed diary, superb writer Diane Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses) re-creates this powerful war story that is so fantastical you might think it could only be fiction.
Ackerman’s poetic writing provides so many insights into the Zabinskis, the people they saved, the few Nazis who tried to do the right thing, and even into the minds of the animals. The Zookeeper’s Wife is a remarkable piece of history that will remind you of the beauty that the world has to offer, even amidst its darkest horrors.
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