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The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction book written by the poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman.Drawing on the diary of Antonina Żabińska, unpublished in English (though published in Polish in 1968 [1]), it recounts the true story of how Antonina and her husband, Jan Żabiński, director of the Warsaw Zoo, saved the lives of 300 Jews who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto following the ...
The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 American war drama film directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman. It is based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction book of the same name. [6] The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War ...
Antonina Maria Żabińska, née Erdman (18 July 1908 – 19 March 1971), was a Polish writer connected, through her husband Jan Żabiński, with the Warsaw Zoo.Together they smuggled out Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and she became the The Zookeeper's Wife.
Academy Award-nominated actress Jessica Chastain and director Niki Caro talk about bonding with the animals used on set of 'The Zookeeper's Wife'.
Jan Żabiński was born in Warsaw, the son of Józef Żabiński and his wife Helena née Strzeszewska who taught him the love of animals. [6] Jan joined the nascent Polish Army in 1919 and took part in the Polish–Soviet War of 1920, for which he was awarded his first Cross of Valour.
The true story even inspired a 2022 Netflix docuseries, Don’t Pick Up the Phone, which follows the investigation into a series of hoax calls that targeted fast food chains across the United ...
Niki Caro and Jessica Chastain for The Zookeeper's Wife. The Zookeeper's Wife was released in 2017 based on the non-fiction book of the same name which recounts the true story of the couple, Jan and Antonina Żabiński, who secretly sheltered Jews during the German invasion of Poland from 1939 to 1945 on their premises of the Warsaw Zoo. The ...
From a shocking death to a last-minute arrest, Based on a True Story took some major swings while wrapping up season 2. Warning: This story contains spoilers about season 2 of Based on a True Story.