The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman • 2007
Devastation Rating
WWII Warsaw Holocaust resistance
Our Take
Jan and Antonina Żabiński hid 300 Jews in the Warsaw Zoo during the German occupation. Ackerman constructs the story from Antonina's diary — the animals, the guests hidden in the animal cages, the constant nearness of discovery. The zoo as refuge and the city as slaughterhouse.
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