![]() ![]() Ackerman reveals other rescuers, like Dr. She introduces us to such varied figures as Lutz Heck, the duplicitous head of the Berlin zoo Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, spiritual head of the ghetto and the leaders of Zegota, the Polish organization that rescued Jews. Using Antonina's diaries, other contemporary sources and her own research in Poland, Ackerman takes us into the Warsaw ghetto and the 1943 Jewish uprising and also describes the Poles' revolt against the Nazi occupiers in 1944. ) tells the remarkable WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who, with courage and coolheaded ingenuity, sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal cages and sheds. Ackerman ( A Natural History of the Senses ![]()
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