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When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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La muerte acechaba. Varsovia era el punto de concentración de los judíos que serían deportados hacia su destino final: el campo de exterminio de Treblinka. En medio de aquellos terribles días de 1943, un pequeño grupo rebelde de jóvenes dirigido por Mordejái Anilevich se preparó para dar la batalla de su vida contra las tropas nazis que controlaban por millares el gueto donde estaban hacinados. Esta es la subversiva historia de aquellos...
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[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reich's newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. To fight back on their own terms, Antonina and Jan covertly begin working with the Resistance....
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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283 pages ; 21 cm
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Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you? Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful and short-lived. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic...
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