The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper's Wife

Diane Ackerman

384 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sad slow-paced

Description

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, i...

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