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Author

Ackerman, Diane, 1948-

Title The zookeeper's wife : a war story / Diane Ackerman.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton, c2007.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Eureka Non-Fiction	940.5318 Ack	---	Available
PHS Non-Fiction	940.53 Ackerman	---	Available
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction	940.5318 Ack	---	DUE 03-06-17 Billed
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction	940.5318 Ack c.2	---	Trace

Edition	1st ed.
Description	368 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary	This book relates the story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers at the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save the lives of approximately three hundred Polish Jews during World War II by housing and feeding them on zoo grounds.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-349) and index.
Study Program	AR RL 9.3 16.0 PHS
Subject	Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
	Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw.
	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw.
	Zoo keepers -- Poland -- Warsaw.
	Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN	9780393061727 (hardback)
	0393061728
	9780393333060 (paperback)
	039333306X (paperback)