…show more content… In “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” the author, Diane Ackerman, is talking about the rescue and resistance aspect of the Holocaust. Both Jan and Antonina found Nazi racism inexplicable, devilish, and “a disgust to the soul,” (page 112). She even asked herself, “How can this barbarity be happening in the twentieth century?!!!!!!” (). There were 400,000 Jews locked away in the Warsaw Ghetto, and would receive only 184 calories per day. Antonina was in disbelief and was even outraged by the Nazi treatment of Jews. As a result of this, parts if the zoo were destroyed and many animals were killed or shipped away. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Warsaw was bombed numerous times. Their villa would always be filled with animals, which Jan and Antonina loved. Jan and Antonina Zabinksi were Christian zookeepers of a zoo located in Warsaw.
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