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100 1  $a Ackerman, Diane.
245 14 $a The zookeeper's wife : $b a war story / $c Diane Ackerman.
264  1 $a New York, NY :  $b W. W. Norton & Company,  $c 2017.
300    $a 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, photographs ; $c 21 cm.
500    $a "Featuring a reading group guide."--Cover.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index.
520    $a 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 Zȧbinśki began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zȧbinśkis' 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.
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600 10 $a Zȧbinśka, Antonina.
600 10 $a Zȧbinśki, Jan, $d 1897-1974.
650  0 $a Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust $z Warsaw $z Warsaw $v Case studies.
650  0 $a Zoo keepers $z Warsaw $z Warsaw $v Case studies.
651  0 $a Warsaw (Poland) $x Ethnic relations.
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