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.ĭiane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (W. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Another dozen guests hid inside the Zabinski villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw-and the city zoo along with it. ![]() ![]() The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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