The Zookeeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka 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 empty cages.

Author

Diane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestsellers The Zookeepers Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. The Zookeepers Wife, a little known true story of WWII, became a New York Times bestseller, and received the Orion Book Award.