The zookeeper's wife / Ackerman, Diane

Contains an account about Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Polish Christians and zookeepers, who were responsible for saving over three hundred people from Nazi racism during World War II. They worked out a plan to conceal Resistance activists and refugee Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto by hiding them in animal cages and bringing animals into their house.

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 and teaching them how to "pass" as Aryan.