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Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Religious zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Pulling on Antonina's journal and other historical options, bestselling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's partner," in charge of her own family, the zoo animals, and their "guests" resistance activists and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan acquired smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto.Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinski's young child risked his life holding food to the friends, while also tending to an eccentric array of creatures inside your home (pigs, hare, muskrat, foxes, plus more). With hidden people having dog names, and dog or cat animals having human being names, it's a tiny marvel the zoo's code name became "The House under a Crazy Superstar." Yet you can find more to this story than a colorful cast. With her delightful sensitivity to the natural world, Ackerman explores the role of character in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the amazing and troubling obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of character and its violation, as humans desired to control the genome of the complete planet.
