The Resource The zookeeper's wife : a war story, Diane Ackerman
The zookeeper's wife : a war story, Diane Ackerman
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st paperback ed.
- Extent
- 368 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Note
- Book includes Reading Group guide [5 p.] following the text
- Contents
-
- Author's note
- Zookeeper's wife
- Details
- Bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780393061727
- Label
- The zookeeper's wife : a war story
- Title
- The zookeeper's wife
- Title remainder
- a war story
- Statement of responsibility
- Diane Ackerman
- Subject
-
- War fiction
- War fiction
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
- Holocaust, 1933-1945
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Warsaw
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
- Jews
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Poland | Warsaw
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland | Warsaw -- Case studies
- Ethnic relations
- 1939-1945
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Warsaw (Poland)
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Zoo keepers -- Poland | Warsaw -- Case studies
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
- Zoo keepers
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jews -- Poland | Warsaw
- World War (1939-1945)
- Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War)
- Poland -- Warsaw
- Case studies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Dewey number
- 940.53/18350943841
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
-
- D804.66.Z33
- DS134.64
- LC item number
-
- A25 2008
- .A25 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Label
- The zookeeper's wife : a war story, Diane Ackerman
- Note
- Book includes Reading Group guide [5 p.] following the text
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Author's note
- Zookeeper's wife
- Details
- Bibliography
- Index
- Control code
- ocn227016807
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st paperback ed.
- Extent
- 368 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393061727
- Lccn
- 2007012635
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)227016807
- Label
- The zookeeper's wife : a war story, Diane Ackerman
- Note
- Book includes Reading Group guide [5 p.] following the text
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Author's note
- Zookeeper's wife
- Details
- Bibliography
- Index
- Control code
- ocn227016807
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st paperback ed.
- Extent
- 368 pages, [8] pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393061727
- Lccn
- 2007012635
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)227016807
Subject
- 1939-1945
- Case studies
- Ethnic relations
- Holocaust, 1933-1945
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Warsaw
- Jews
- Jews -- Poland | Warsaw
- Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War)
- Poland -- Warsaw
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland | Warsaw -- Case studies
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Warsaw (Poland)
- War fiction
- War fiction
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Poland | Warsaw
- Zoo keepers
- Zoo keepers -- Poland | Warsaw -- Case studies
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Żabińska, Antonina
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
- Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
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