10/17/2023 0 Comments The zookeepers wife bookThe film starring Jessica Chastain has also been well-received and has prompted people to once again seek out the excellent source material (and the unpublished diaries of Antonina which Ackerman based her book on). Not only is their story well worth writing about-these acts of bravery that occasionally dot history give us all some faith that, as Hemingway said, “the world is a fine place and worth fighting for”-but Ackerman’s writing is beautiful. ![]() ![]() The book, by Diane Ackerman, is the real-life story of Jan Żabiński and Antonina Żabińska, who ran the Warsaw Zoo during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II and saved the lives of 300 Jews who had escaped the Warsaw Ghetto. ![]() The Zookeeper’s Wife is enjoying a lot of well-deserved success.
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