The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Diane Ackerman
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
441

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Book Summary

The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.

A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

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.

Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinskis’ young son risked his life carrying food to the Guests, while also tending an eccentric array of creatures in the house. With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, it’s small wonder the zoo’s codename became “The House Under a Crazy Star.”

Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet.

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Book Name The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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The upcoming movie might be better!. Diane Ackerman is really not writing an interesting true story about the Warsaw Zoo and it's zookeepers hiding and protecting Jews during WWII. She is documenting the lives of those rescued. I'm sure her efforts will help in the future as the stories of the Holocaust become impossible to believe. Just too much detail on the lives of the rescued for my taste. It disrupts the narrative.

Zoo Keepers Wife. This was an amazing story of courage and compassion.

Zookeepers Wife. Good historical view. Slow moving and ended rather abruptly.

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Summary of The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

The The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story book written by Diane Ackerman was published on 17 September 2008, Wednesday in the History category. A total of 441 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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