The zookeepers wife book quotes movie#
Now let me just say, I came to this book with certain expectations, none of which were shaped by the movie – I haven’t seen it. The audacity of the plan and the temerity of hiding a beleaguered people in the very lair of their persecutors pays off, but at a steep emotional cost as the war drags on and Jan and Antonina worry not only about themselves and their dwindling animals, but about their son who sits in the cross hairs of their double lives. Yet, the uniqueness of their lives – its centralized outgoing chaos, puts them in a position to do the unthinkable – hide Jewish guests.
When bombs and marauding Nazi officials with a yen for fake game hunting desolate their zoo, the couple finds their home continually invaded and used by the German army – sometimes as a zoo, sometimes as a barracks, sometimes as an impromptu pig farm, sometimes as a fur mill. Jan and Antonina Zabinski loved animals and zoo keeping, forming special, deep relationships with critters ranging from elephants to badgers. We’ve all heard the story behind The Zookeeper’s Wife, a non-fictionalized account of a couple during World War II Nazi occupied Poland who managed to save hundreds of lives by hiding refugees in plain sight.
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