Jan y Antonina Zabinski, el director del zoo de Varsovia y su esposa, ayudaron a salvar a cientos de personas (y tambin a muchos animales del Zoo) de los nazis tras la invasin de. With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Ackerman explores the role of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans sought to control the genome of the entire planet. Neither audio nor subtitles are available in your language.
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With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human names, it's a small wonder the zoo's code name became "The House under a Crazy Star." Yet there is more to this story than a colorful cast.
It is based on a journal written by the wife of the Warsaw Zoos head zookeeper, Antonina Zabinska. Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinski's young son risked his life carrying food to the guests, while also tending to an eccentric array of creatures in the house (pigs, hare, muskrat, foxes, and more). The Zookeepers Wife takes place in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history.ĭrawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, bestselling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their "guests": resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. David Brhl is a Spanish-German actor born in Barcelona, Spain, on June 16, 1978. In the film, he formed a rivalry against Jan Zabinski and developed a romantic interest in Jan’s wife, Antonina. When the Germans invade their country, they are forced to report to the Reichs newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck. Lutz Heck is a German Zoologist, Adolf Hitler’s chief Zoologist, as well as head of the Berlin Zoo. English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Korean, Russian, Dutch, Latin, Hebrew, Norwegian, Thai, Danish, Arabic.
Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinska and her husband, Dr. Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. The Zookeepers Wife (DVD) : The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II.