The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story

Diane Ackerman, author of the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 19 at UCSB Campbell Hall. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction recounts a story–as powerful as Schindler’s List–of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who capitalized on the Nazis’ obsession with pureblood animals in order to save over 300 doomed Jewish refugees and Polish resistance fighters by hiding them in the bombed-out cages at the Warsaw Zoo. This free, public event is presented by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
Listen to a Jan. 2008 interview with Diane Ackerman on NPR’s Science Friday.

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