The zookeeper's wife
Ackerman, Diane (, 1948-)
The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman - Detroit : Gale, Cengage Learning , 2008, c2007. - 487 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Large print books .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and index.
"Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history." "Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, Diane Ackerman re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests" - Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose cages they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself." "Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet."--BOOK JACKET.
9781410403490
2007012635
Zabinski, Jan, 1897-1974
Zabinski, Antonina
Righteous gentiles in the holocaust----Biography
Zookeepers----Case studies
Warsaw (Poland)----Ethnic relations
D804.66.Z33 / A25 2007
LARP 940.5318 ACK
The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman - Detroit : Gale, Cengage Learning , 2008, c2007. - 487 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Large print books .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and index.
"Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history." "Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, Diane Ackerman re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests" - Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose cages they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself." "Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet."--BOOK JACKET.
9781410403490
2007012635
Zabinski, Jan, 1897-1974
Zabinski, Antonina
Righteous gentiles in the holocaust----Biography
Zookeepers----Case studies
Warsaw (Poland)----Ethnic relations
D804.66.Z33 / A25 2007
LARP 940.5318 ACK
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