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The villa was built as staff accommodation in 1931. It was inhabited by Jan Żabiński, who at the time served as director of the Warsaw Zoo, together with his family – wife Antonina, son Ryszard (in 1944 the family grew with the birth of a daughter, Tereska).
Mar 31, 2017 · Married couple Jan and Antonina Zabinski were running the Warsaw Zoo in Poland when Hitler's army invaded, and in the early 1940s, they used their zoo as a refuge for Jews, hiding them from...
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Feb 1, 2021 · WARSAW — The daughter of former Warsaw Zoo directors Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust by hiding them at the zoo and whose story was told in the Hollywood...
Dec 14, 2016 · Jan Żabiński (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974, Warsaw) and Antonina Żabińska (1908–1971) were a married couple from Warsaw,recognized by the State of Israel as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.
Apr 11, 2015 · Jan and Antonina Zabinski are believed to have saved the lives of dozens, perhaps hundreds of Jews during the war. By Vanessa Gera 11 April 2015, 3:50 pm. A villa on the grounds of the Warsaw Zoo...
Dec 14, 2015 · During the darkest days of the Holocaust, with anti-Semitism eating away at the previously thriving Jewish community, professor Jan Zabinski and his wife Antonia risked their own lives and the...
Feb 1, 2021 · — The daughter of a Polish couple who rescued Jews by hiding them at Warsaw’s zoo has died. Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki died Sunday at the age of 77, the Warsaw Zoo wrote on Facebook. The ...
