4) The zookeepers wife

The zookeepers wife

by: Diane Ackerman

Hold your horses I have read a world war II biography and I really really liked it. This real war time story is about Warsawas zoo and The Zookeeper Jan Zabinski's wife Antonia. How she was fighting to save the animals at the zoo and after that the huge organisation in moving Jews out of the Warsaw Ghetto and out of an occupied poland. Around 300 people were helped, where only two were captured and killed. From page one I could not stop reading, it moved me and right now I have an urged to travel to warsaw and walk the streets, see the remains and try to wrap into my head how they lived during the occupation.

I give it a four.

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