"A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these 'guests,' and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became 'The House Under a Crazy Star.'
Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story―sharing Antonina's life as, 'the zookeeper's wife,' while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism."
I mean, not a PLEASANT subject, Man's Inhumanity To Man, but History worth preserving & sharing.
And, you know, Zoo-related. In remembrance of, now, Cesare and of course, Harambe. ;)
Yes, that was a wonderful book. That’s where the hunting reference came from. If I recall SS officers would either “hunt” the animals in the Warsaw zoo, or they were shipped to Warsaw and “hunted” there. Staff officers I presume, it’s not like there was any shortage of targets at the time. They made a movie of it, but I’ve not seen that, don’t watch many movies.