The Zookeeper's Wife: a Polish Woman's War Memories
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In September 1939, Germany launched the "Blitzkrieg" against Poland. Bombers destroyed Warsaw and also destroyed the idyllic past life of the Warsaw Zoo. Director Yaan was active on the front lines of the Polish underground resistance organization. He and his wife Antonina took advantage of the Nazis' obsession with primitive ecology and rare animals to hide more than 300 Jews in vacant animal houses, turning the ruins of the zoo into "Noah's Ark" between the German-occupied area of Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto, between life and death, between light and darkness. Even in hell, animals, nature, art and love are still the keys to healing pain and redeeming the soul. In a beautiful and delicate style, naturalist writer Diana Ackerman reproduces the touching story of people and animals coexisting and fighting side by side in a state of war, protecting the miracle of life together.
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