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the State Zoological Museum archives the memoirs and letters collected by a secret group of wartime archivists who hid (in boxes and milk churns) documents that now reside at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw testimonies given to Israel's unique Righteous Among Nations program and the superb Shoah Project and letters, diaries, sermons, memoirs, articles, and other writings by citizens of the Warsaw Ghetto. I've also depended on family photographs (that's how I know Jan wore his watch on his hairy left wrist and Antonina had a thing for polka-dot dresses) conversations with their son Ryszard, various people at the Warsaw Zoo, and Warsaw women who were contemporaries of Antonina and also served the Underground writings by Lutz Heck artifacts viewed in museums, such as the dramatic Warsaw Uprising Museum and the eloquent Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Whenever I say Antonina or Jan thought, wondered, felt, I'm quoting from their writings or interviews. In telling their story, I've relied on many sources detailed in the bibliography, but most of all on the memoirs ("based on my diary and loose notes") of "the zookeeper's wife," Antonina Żabińska, rich with the sensuous spell of the zoo her autobiographical children's books, such as Life at the Zoo Jan Żabiński's books and recollections and the interviews Antonina and Jan gave to Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish newspapers. But in wartime Poland, when even handing a thirsty Jew a cup of water was punishable by death, their heroism stands out as all the more startling. Their story has fallen between the seams of history, as radically compassionate acts sometimes do. JAN AND ANTONINA ŻABIŃSKI WERE CHRISTIAN ZOOKEEPERS horrified by Nazi racism, who capitalized on the Nazis' obsession with rare animals in order to save over three hundred doomed people. Photo insert: Photos courtesy of the Warsaw Zoo and the author. Title.įrontispiece: Antonina Żabińska with her favorites, the lynxes. World War, 1939–1945-Jews-Rescue-Poland-Warsaw. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust-Poland-Warsaw. The zookeeper's wife: a war story / Diane Ackerman.-1st ed.ġ.
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