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The Zookeeper's Wife
2007 book unreceptive Diane Ackerman
For the 2017 film suiting, see Picture Zookeeper's Better half (film).
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Plot summary
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During the Second World War, the premises of the Warsaw Zoo were a place where Jan and Antonina Żabiński saved lives, gave shelter and provided assistance to hundreds of people mainly from the Warsaw Ghetto, for which they were awarded the title of Righteous Among Nations in 1965.
The event was attended by relatives of and people close to the Żabiński family: Dominik Zawadzki – the grandson of Jan and Antonina, a Founder and Vice-President of the Zabinski Foundation (Fundacja Żabińskich) who shared their memories prior to the screening of the film. The President of the Żabiński Foundation, Ms Anat Arazi, told the guests about the goals and objectives of the Foundation. Members of the diplomatic corps in Poland were also in attendance.
The screening of The Zookeeper’s Wife at the Polish History Museum is part of a broader joint project by the Żabiński Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with its missions abroad, to organise special screenings of the film in numerous countries around the world.
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History of the Żabiński Villa
Villa interiors
The atmosphere and climate of the thirties of the last century has been restored in the rooms of the Villa. In the first room, it is worth to take a closer look at a few display cases containing a wealth of interesting insect specimens. This is the priceless collection of Szymon Tenenbaum, a world-famous Jewish entomologist, who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto with his family in 1940. He entrusted his entire collection of about 500,000 invertebrates to his friend Jan Żabiński for safekeeping. The collection was overlooked during the looting of the Warsaw Zoological Garden by SS units, and in 1944, three weeks before the Warsaw Uprising, it was moved to the Zoological Museum. In a bold action, Director Żabiński managed to get the professor’s wife out of the ghetto and hide her on the Aryan side. Unfortunately, Tenenbaum himself (supposedly did not want to leave the ghetto) died there in 1941.
Żabiński’s well-preserved books, most of them in German and most of them on zoological topics, fill the shelves that cover an entire wall. Director Żabiński’s original ashtray, donated by his daughter, sits on the table in the office. There are family photos on the walls and desk.
A grand piano stands in the living roo