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105640 |
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 157283 KB, mp3 file size: 308246 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Read by Suzanne Toren. |
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Duration: 10:56:40. |
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"Sound library." |
| Summary |
When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the 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 inhabitants and refusing to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, even as Europe crumbled around her. |
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Żabińska, Antonina.
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Żabiński, Jan, 1897-1974.
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Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. -- Sound recordings.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw. -- Sound recordings.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw. -- Sound recordings.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw. -- Sound recordings.
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Zoo keepers -- Poland -- Warsaw. -- Sound recordings.
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Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations.
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audiobook.
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| Added Author |
Toren, Suzanne.
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BBC Audiobooks America.
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OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780792751298 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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0792751299 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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