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The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Jan, a veteran of WWI and a reserve officer is on duty that night. They consider sending Rys away before a war starts. Antonia leaves Rys there and returns to Jan for a time. ![]() Two of Rys’s friends tell him that the beaches are being dug up to build fortifications. ![]() Antonia takes their son, Rys, to their vacation cottage. Meanwhile, Jan, the director of the zoo, meets a sculptor named Magdalena Gross, who quickly becomes friends with Antonia and fascinated by the animals. She is also the zoo guide for important or distinguished guests. Antonia cares for the sick or orphaned animals, as well as their own pets. Jan and Antonia live in a villa on the grounds of the Warsaw Zoo, waking up in the morning to beautiful plants and the sounds of happy animals. The Zookeeper’s Wife (2007), a non-fiction book by poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman, tells the story of a Polish couple who save the lives of three hundred Jews imprisoned after the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. ![]()
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