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The Zookeeper's Wife: a Polish Woman's War Memories Diana AckermanHistorical253k Wordscompleted 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 a "Noah's Ark" between the German-occupied area of Warsaw a 14Reads8.3Score—Shelves