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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 II. Note 1] It stars Jessica Chastain , Johan Heldenbergh , Daniel Brühl and Michael McElhatton .
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Apr 7, 2017 · The Zookeeper's Wife: Directed by Niki Caro. With Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford. Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Niki Caro
- 2017-04-07
By the outbreak of WWII in 1939, the Berlin Zoo housed nearly 4000 mammals and birds, and over 8000 specimens in its aquarium. The Nazi authorities had made some nebulous plans and promises to evacuate the animals of the Berlin Zoo, as well as those of other German zoos such as Dresden’s and Dusseldorf’s, but they never followed through.
Mar 31, 2017 · In the villa’s basement, accessed with a secret tunnel to the garden, the Zabinskys hid nearly 300 Jews and resistance fighters on zoo grounds during most of World War II.
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Jul 20, 2018 · This is a story of how violence and dictatorship made the Berlin Zoo lose its innocence, but it is also a story of love for animals, human powers of survival and the rebirth of the historic and public icon the Berlin Zoo still is today. Below are two chapters of this new book written by Kevin Prenger.
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Mar 21, 2017 · Yes. The real Lutz Heck was the renowned director of the Berlin Zoo and a prewar colleague of Jan Zabinski. Supported by leading Nazi member Hermann Göring, Heck set out to eliminate animals the Nazis deemed racially degenerate, much like the Nazis' plan for humans.
Mar 31, 2017 · In the new movie The Zookeeper’s Wife (based on a nonfiction book of the same title by Diane Ackerman), Heck is the nemesis of Warsaw zookeepers Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who risk their...
