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  1. The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman. It is based on Diane Ackerman 's non-fiction book of the same name . [ 6 ] The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War II . [ 7 ] [

  2. Mar 21, 2017 · Yes. The Nazi bombing of Warsaw in September 1939 left the zoo severely damaged and many of its cages emptied of animals. The Zookeeper's Wife true story confirms that the Zabinskis used the cages to hide fleeing Jews and partisans. They also hid them in the underground pathways connecting the animal cages.

  3. Mar 30, 2017 · For our fact check, we went for the best possible sources: the diary of its main character – Antonina Żabińska (published as a novel after World War II, entitled People and Animals) and we went to the actual villa where it all happened, which still stands in the Warsaw Zoo today, and talked to people from the Panda Foundation, the keepers of the Żabiński family story.

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  4. Mar 29, 2017 · The rest survived. The film adaptation, written by Angela Workman and directed by Niki Caro (“ Whale Rider “), has many lovely and moving moments but fails to capture the many layers of this unique story, relying instead on plainly-stated metaphors. “A human zoo,” Antonina (Jessica Chastain) breathes, when Jan (Johan Heldenbergh ...

  5. Mar 31, 2017 · The happy couple who was running one of the most notable zoo in all of Europe, in the Poland capital, suddenly started to lose the animals for nazi air raids. The remains were taken away when the city, the nation was invaded. Soon the empty enclosure becomes hideout for the Jeweish.

  6. The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman.Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English (though published in Polish in 1968 [1]), it recounts the true story of how Antonina and her husband, Jan Żabiński, director of the Warsaw Zoo, saved the lives of 300 Jews who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto following the ...

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  8. Mar 30, 2017 · Stephania Kenigswain Stibon‘s family hid in the zoo for over two months — the longest time anyone stayed. Stibon was just 7 months old when the war started and was 3 when her mother escaped ...