The zookeeper's wife : a war story
(CD Book)

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Toren, Suzanne. Narrator
Published
North Kingstown, R.I. : BBC Audiobooks America, [2007].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 hr., 57 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Status
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Holocaust Shelf
CD 940.5318 ACKERM 2007
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD 940.5318 ACKERM 2007
1 available

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Published
North Kingstown, R.I. : BBC Audiobooks America, [2007].
Format
CD Book
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 9.3, 16 Points

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General Note
"Digitally Mastered"--Container.
Participants/Performers
Read by Suzanne Toren.
Description
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 explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her.
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"Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing 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. 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. 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. 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."--,Provided by Amazon.
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Compact disc.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ackerman, D., & Toren, S. (2007). The zookeeper's wife: a war story (Unabridged.). BBC Audiobooks America.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ackerman, Diane, 1948- and Suzanne. Toren. 2007. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story. BBC Audiobooks America.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ackerman, Diane, 1948- and Suzanne. Toren. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story BBC Audiobooks America, 2007.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ackerman, Diane, and Suzanne Toren. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Unabridged., BBC Audiobooks America, 2007.

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