![]() ![]() When aiding a Jew in Poland was punishable by death, the Zabinskis saved 300 of them. ![]() Antonina Zabinski (left) and husband Jan Family archive of Teresa Zabinska. Hidden in its underground cages and dens and in the basement and cupboards of the zookeepers’ adjoining villa were Polish Jews, sometimes 50 at a time. In Jan and Antonina Zabinski’s zoo, monkeys shrieked, parrot feathers caught fire, and bloodied zebras fled broken cages and ran for the woods.īut after the smoke cleared - and the Germans stole all the surviving animals they wanted - that hellish place became a sanctuary. Antonina Zabinski, along with her Warsaw zookeeper husband, saved many Jewish people from the Nazis by hiding them underground.
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