Antonina Żabińska
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Antonina Maria Żabińska, née Erdman, was a Polish writer connected, through her husband Jan Żabiński, with the Warsaw Zoo. Together they smuggled out Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. Her story was popular
Żabiński family tomb at historic Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
Szymon Tenenbaum
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Szymon Tenenbaum was a Polish zoologist and entomologist from Warsaw. He died of starvation and exhaustion under home arrest in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German invasion of Poland. His vast collect
Antonina Żabińska
…with family, Marysia Aszerówna, the Keller family, Professor Ludwik Hirszfeld as well as Leonia and Irena Tenenbaum, wife and daughter of entomologist Szymon Tenenbaum (who died in the Ghetto), as well as numerous others; most of whom survived the Holocaust and nominated them for the Righteous Award years later. During…
Tenenbaum with daughter Irena, 1932
Szymon Tenebaum Polish entomologist