· The Zookeeper's Wife. by. Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 87, ratings · 9, reviews. 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 Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages/5. THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE, a War Story. New York Times Bestseller. Orion Book Award. Feature Film starring Jessica Chastain, Daniel Brühl, Johan Heldenbergh The Zookeeper's Wife is a strange, but historically true story of WWII. It reveals the extraordinary efforts of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who capitalized on the Nazis' obsession with . 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 /5(K).
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Overview - When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. The Zookeeper's Wife, which opens in theaters this weekend, highlights the riveting true story of how one family saved hundreds of Jewish lives in Nazi-occupied bltadwin.ru on Diane Ackerman. © Diane Ackerman (P) BBC Audiobooks America. Each time there was a quotation from the Zookeeper's Wife (this is a factual account drawn from diaries, it seems, possibly interviews with family), the narrator switched to the worst Eastern European accent I have ever heard. She'd perhaps been watching too many B vampire movies, trying.
The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman. Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English, it recounts the true story of how Antonina and her husband, Jan Żabiński, director of the Warsaw Zoo, saved the lives of Jews who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, The book was first published in by W. W. Norton. 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 Orion Award. Jan Zabinski and his wife Antonina are Polish zookeepers who shelter over Jews in their home and zoo enclosures over the course of WWII. Brave and resourceful, Jan works with the Home Army to sabotage the Nazis and smuggle food and supplies into the Jewish ghetto as Antonina keeps their villa running while hiding several guests at a time both inside the house and outside in zoo buildings.
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