Jan Żabiński and his wife Antonina Żabińska (1908–1971) 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. Jan Żabiński was a zoologist and zootechnician by profession, a scientist, and organizer and director of the renowned Warsaw Zoo before and during World War II. He became director of the Zoo before the outbreak of war but during the occupation of Poland also held a prestigious function of the Superintendent of the city's public parks in 1939–1945. A street in Warsaw is named after him.
Jan Żabiński, c. 1939
Tomb of the Żabiński family at the historical Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw
Antonina Maria Żabińska, née Erdman, was a Polish writer connected, through her husband Jan Żabiński, with the Warsaw Zoo.
Żabiński family tomb at historic Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw