Jan Żabiński
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Jan Żabiński and his wife Antonina Żabińska were a Polish couple from Warsaw, recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland. Ja
Jan Żabiński, c. 1939
Tomb of the Żabiński family at the historical Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
The Zookeeper's Wife
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The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman. Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English, it recounts the true story of how Anton
Jan Żabiński
…1965. On October 30, 1968, a tree planting ceremony was held at Yad Vashem honoring them. In 2007, an American poet and writer Diane Ackerman published The Zookeeper's Wife, a book about the Żabiński family's wartime activities that draws upon Antonina Żabińska's diary. The Polish film director Maciej Dejczer announced in…
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