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A true storyas powerful as Schindler's List in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsawand the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitantsotters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.

With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her. 8 pages of illustrations.

黛安娜·阿克曼 Diane Ackerman 生于美国伊利诺伊州沃基根市。宾夕法尼亚州立大学文学学士，康奈尔大学美术硕士和哲学博士。她的诗作见于许多有名的文学刊物，已结集出版的有：《行星：九天牧歌》（1976）、《光明妇》（1978）、《浮士德夫人》（1983）、《回击 ：一幕诗剧》（1988）、《笑盈盈的美洲豹：新作精选》（1991）。其他作品包括飞行回忆录《在伸展的翅膀上》（1985）、《爱的自然史》（1994）、《维尔莱特之月及其他关于蝙蝠、鳄鱼、、企鹅和鲸鱼的冒险故事》（1991）、《感觉的自然史》（1990）、《爱的自然史》（1995）、《心灵深戏》（2000）、《思想魔力》（2005）、《黎明之光》（2010）、《爱的一百种名字》（2012）。

阿克曼女士的成就备受嘉奖，曾荣获布洛斯自然奖（John Burroughs Nature Award）、美国学院诗人勒文奖（Academy of American Poet's Lavan Award），以及美国国家艺术基金会和洛克菲勒基金会的奖励。现执教于哥伦比亚、康奈尔等几所著名大学，同时作为主笔为《纽约人》杂志撰稿。她所获得的另一项殊荣，就是有一个分子以她为名，称作“dianeackerone”。