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The Zookeeper’s Wife
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  • Ackerman, Diane
    Diane Ackerman

    The Zookeeper’s Wife (2007; film 2017) relates the true story of how the proprietors of a zoo in Nazi-occupied Warsaw managed to conceal several hundred Jews. In 2003 her husband, writer Paul West, suffered a debilitating stroke, and that event—as well as his difficult recovery—were…

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    The Zookeeper’s Wife (2007; film 2017) relates the true story of how the proprietors of a zoo in Nazi-occupied Warsaw managed to conceal several hundred Jews. In 2003 her husband, writer Paul West, suffered a debilitating stroke, and that event—as well as his difficult recovery—were…

    Read More