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The Zookeeper’s Wife
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ISBN-13:
9780393333060
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2008
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Diane Ackerman
Gewicht:
318 g
Format:
207x139x29 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Diane Ackerman, geboren 1948 in Illinois, Studium der Geisteswissenschaften. Zahlreiche Buchveröffentlichungen (auch Lyrik und Gedichte) sowie journalistische Arbeiten.Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in Ithaca, NY.
New York Times Bestseller
Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, best-selling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "Guests"-Resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically, the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose names they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the house itself.