The zookeepers wife diane ackerman9/24/2023 We see a family unit living through occupation, seeing the zoo they’ve built destroyed and the animals they love slaughtered or stolen by the Nazis under the orders of Lutz Heck, who then organised an SS hunting party in the zoo grounds New Year’s Eve. Jan and Antonina saved 300 smuggling them out of the ghetto, hiding them in animal cages, coming up with ploys to be able to legally enter the ghetto and get people to safety. At the outbreak of war there were 380,000 Jews living in the city, most of them did not survive the Holocaust. Jan and Antonina Zabinski ran Warsaw Zoo in 1939.
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