A review by literacyluminary
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

4.0

There are probably thousands of stories of people risking their lives, families and homes to save Jews during WWII. Add this story of the Zabinski's, polish zoo-keepers, who used their zoo and home to facilitate the Underground movement to save the lives of over 300 hundred Polish Jews. After the German invasion of Warsaw, the Germans either killed or removed all of the zoo animals. The empty zoo cages helped hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after the animals whose cages they occupied. As much as it was a story about the zoo and the Zabinski's, there was a broader story about the Polish Underground, Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw uprising.