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The Zoo Keeper’s Wife: A Polish Woman’s War Memoir 动物园长夫人：一个波兰女性的战争回忆 Diana Ackerman戴安娜·阿克曼Historical253k WordsCompleted In September 1939, Germany launched its “Blitzkrieg” against Poland. Bombers destroyed Warsaw, and with it the Warsaw Zoo's once-idyllic way of life. Jan, the zoo's director, was active on the front lines of the Polish underground resistance. He and his wife, Antonina, took advantage of the Nazis' fascination with primitive ecosystems and rare animals to shelter more than 300 Jews in vacant animal enclosures, transforming the ruins of the zoo into an “Ark of Noah” between German-occupied Warsaw 13Reads8.3Score—Shelves