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Original Title:	The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
ISBN:	0393354253 (ISBN13: 9780393354256)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jan Zabinski, Antonina Zabinski
Setting:	Poland Warsaw(Poland)
Literary Awards:	Orion Book Award (2008), One Book One San Diego (2009)

The Zookeeper's Wife Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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Title	:	The Zookeeper's Wife
Author	:	Diane Ackerman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Movie Tie-In Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	February 17th 2017 by W. W. Norton Company (first published September 7th 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. War. World War II. Holocaust

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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. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' 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.With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.

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A different sort of Holocaust story, set at Warsaw Zoo in the years surrounding World War II. Even after Nazis dismantled their zoo and killed many of the larger animals, Jan and Antonina Żabiński stayed at their home and used the zoos premises for storing explosives and ammunition for Jans work in the Polish resistance as well as sheltering Guests, Jews passing through. This is a gripping narrative of survival against the odds, with the added pleasure of the kind of animal antics youd find in a

I listened to the audio version, some of the time in a hammock, a mistake. I found most of it rather dry. Sometimes I felt like I was listening to the audio version of a Wild Kingdom show. It seemed there was only spurts about the zookeeper's wife. Last night I saw the movie, one of the rare instances I found the movie to be better than the book. I wondered how they would even depict this book as a movie while listening, but was quite surprised. I guess I needed the visual to really appreciate

Let me preface by saying a) I love Diane Ackerman's previous works and b) I have a deep interest in holocaust history. Therefore, I was surprised her latest book did not engage me as much as I'd hoped. Ackerman usually tackles very broad, amorphous subjects like love, the five senses, etc. And her somewhat circular and poetic writing style is, I think, well suited to those topics. But for The Zookeepers Wife, I craved a level of linear details and specifics that I just could not find. I quickly

Audiobook performed by Suzanne TorenWhen Germany invaded Poland, and the Nazis occupied Warsaw, they began the determined extermination of that countrys Jews. But many Polish citizens helped to shelter their Jewish friends and neighbors. This is the story one of family, and the wife and mother in particular: Antonina Zabinski, the zookeepers wife. Its a fascinating story, and well told. Jan Zabinski was the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and he and his family lived in a villa on the zoological

Naively, I imagined this was going to be an account of the efforts to save the animals in the Warsaw zoo during the war. The zoo however was near anti-aircraft guns and thus an immediate target for the Germans when they invaded Poland. Many of the animals were immediately killed and Polish soldiers killed all the dangerous animals the next day. One thing I realised here was how much more emotionally painful I found the thought of bombs dropping on animals in cages and in enclosures than I ever

This is an extra ordinary story, written by an author that brought to light all that is beautiful;nature loving in the midst of World War II in Poland.The events are true, taken from the diary and notes of the Zookeepers wife Antonina Zabinska. Antonina had a special gift with the care of animals; even keeping the babies in her home.The Zoo became a refuge for many people, young and old, who had no home left nor nothing to eatThey saved over three hundred lives.Antonina would play on the piano

I really, really, really wanted to like this book. It's the true story of a Polish couple who hid Jews at their zoo in Poland during WWII. Their story itself is very heroic, but the writing style detracts from what is supposed to be the point of the book. The author is frequently sidetracked with long passages of history, details about the lives of people not relevant to the story, and lengthy descriptions of nature (I skipped a good two pages or so that just listed different types of beetles).