Diane Ackerman

USA · Holocaust — rescue narrative

About

American poet and naturalist. The Zookeeper's Wife, drawn from Antonina Żabińska's diary, tells how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo hid hundreds of Jews in its grounds.

Books in Database (1)

The Zookeeper's Wife 2007 · 368 pages

The keepers of the Warsaw Zoo hide three hundred Jews in empty cages and their villa as the city burns around them.

Popular History

Events Covered

1941 The Holocaust