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020    9780393333060 (pbk.) 
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050  4 DS134.64|b.A25  2008 
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100 1  Ackerman, Diane,|d1948- 
245 14 The Zookeeper's wife :|ba war story /|cDiane Ackerman 
250    1st paperback ed 
260    New York :|bW.W. Norton,|cc2008 
300    368 p., [8] p. of plates :|bill. ;|c21cm 
500    Book includes reading book guide [5 p.] 
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and 
       index 
505 0  Author's note -- Zookeeper's wife -- Details -- 
       Bibliography -- Index 
520    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 
600 10 Żabiński, Jan,|d1897-1974 
600 10 Żabińska, Antonina 
650  0 Jews|zPoland|zWarsaw 
650  0 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust|zPoland|zWarsaw|vCase 
       studies 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|zPoland|zWarsaw 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xJews|xRescue|zPoland|zWarsaw 
650  0 Zoo keepers|zPoland|zWarsaw|vCase studies 
651  0 Warsaw (Poland)|xEthnic relations