![]() ![]() 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 Nazi persecution in empty animal enclosures and their personal home. ![]() Before you dismiss The Zookeeper's Wife as another Oscar-bait movie about the Holocaust, know this: the film about Polish zookeepers who helped shelter hundreds of jews during Hitler's invasion of Poland is actually based on a true story.
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