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 Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English, it recounts the true story of how Anton
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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
The Zookeeper's Wife
…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 Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English (though published in Polish in 1968), it recounts the true story of how Antonina and her husband, Jan Żabiński, director of the…
Żabiński family tomb at historic Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw