The zookeeper's wife : a war story

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Label

The zookeeper's wife : a war story

Title remainder

a war story

Statement of responsibility

Diane Ackerman

Title variation

zookeepers wife

Title variation remainder

a war story

Creator

• trueAckerman, Diane, 1948-
• Ackerman, Diane, 1948-

Subject

• War fiction
• HISTORY -- Holocaust
• War fiction
• trueWarsaw, Poland -- Interethnic relations
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Homefront
• World War (1939-1945)
• truePoland -- History -- 20th century
• trueJews, Polish
• Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
• Żabińska, Antonina
• Zoo keepers -- Poland | Warsaw
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue -- Poland | Warsaw
• trueLife stories -- Politics | Activists and reformers
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland | Warsaw -- Case studies
• 1939-1945
• Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
• Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War)
• trueRescues
• Ethnic relations
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Warsaw (Poland)
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern
• Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
• Żabińska, Antonina
• Holocaust, 1933-1945
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts -- World War II -- Holocaust
• trueAdult books for young adults
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Zoo keepers -- Poland | Warsaw -- Case studies
• HISTORY -- Military | World War II
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Warsaw
• trueBiographies
• trueRighteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
• Jews -- Poland | Warsaw
• trueWorld War II -- Jews | Rescue
• trueHolocaust (1933-1945) -- Warsaw, Poland
• Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
• Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974
• trueZoo keepers -- Biography
• Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland | Warsaw
• Żabińska, Antonina
• trueBooks to movies
• Poland -- Warsaw
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews | Rescue
• Zoo keepers
• Jews
• Case studies

Genre

• trueBiographies
• trueCase studies
• trueBiography
• trueAdult books for young adults
• trueBooks to movies
• War fiction
• trueHistory writing
• trueLife stories

Language

eng

Summary

The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes--and keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.--From publisher description

Tone

• trueBittersweet
• trueStrong sense of place
• trueDramatic

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueStylistically complex
• trueRichly detailed
• trueDescriptive

Award

• ALA Notable Book, 2008.
• Booklist Editors' Choice, 2007.
• Library Journal Best Books, 2007.

Awards note

ALA Notable Books, 2008.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

940.53/18350943841

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plans
• plates

Index

index present

Interest level

• Grades 9-12
• UG

LC call number

• D804.66.Z33
• DS134.64

LC item number

• A25 2008
• .A25 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

• 9.3
• 9.3

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adult