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The zookeeper's wife

  • Diane Ackerman

4.50

2 ratings

The time is 1939 and the place is Poland, homeland of Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski. The Warsaw Zoo flourishes under Jan's stewardship and Antonina's care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. The Zabinskis covertly begin working with the Resistance and put into action plans to save the lives of hundreds from what has become the Warsaw Ghetto.

Genres

  • Jews
  • Zoo keepers
  • Ethnic relations
  • Case studies
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
  • Rescue
  • Reading Level-Grade 9
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Holocaust, 1933-1945
  • Jews, poland
  • World war, 1939-1945, jews
  • Warsaw (poland), history
  • World war, 1939-1945, poland
  • World War II
  • Eastern
  • Holocaust
  • Military
  • HISTORY
  • Large type books
  • nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2008-09-28
  • New York Times bestseller
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Ethnic & race relations
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About the author

  • Diane Ackerman

    born October 7, 1948

    4.20

    10 ratings · 59 works

Editions

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    1st ed

    W.W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company

    2007

  • Edition cover

    W. W. Norton

    September 4, 2007

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    W.W. Norton

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    Lrg edition

    Thorndike Press

    January 9, 2008

Edition cover

W. W. Norton

2008

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    W.W. Norton & Company

    2008