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          On September 21st, , Yad Vashem recognized Jan and Antonina Zabinsky as Righteous Among the Nations.!

          Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish zookeepers who saved Jews by hiding them in cages in their Warsaw zoo during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

        1. A Polish railroad engineer.
        2. On September 21st, , Yad Vashem recognized Jan and Antonina Zabinsky as Righteous Among the Nations.
        3. *Starred Review* Jan Zabinski, the innovative director of the Warsaw Zoo, and Antonina, his empathic wife, lived joyfully on the zoo grounds.
        4. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages.

          5. Antonina Żabińska

          Polish writer, Righteous Among the Nations (1908–1971)

          Antonina Maria Żabińska, néeErdman (18 July 1908 – 19 March 1971), was a Polish writer connected, through her husband Jan Żabiński, with the Warsaw Zoo.

          Together they smuggled out Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and she became the The Zookeeper's Wife.

          Life

          Antonina Żabińska's literary debut was a short story, "Pamiętnik żyrafy" ("Memoirs of a Giraffe"), in Moje pisemko (My Magazine, 1934).

          Another story, "Jak białowieskie rysice zostały Warszawiankami" ("How Female Lynxes from the Białowieża Forest Became Warsaw Residents") appeared in 1936 as the first part of an "Opowieści przyrodnicze" ("Nature Tales") series.

          1939 saw her first book, Dżolly i S-ka (Jolly and Company), with a postwar re-edition subtitled "Z dziejów Warszawskiego Ogrodu Zoologicznego" ("From the History of the Warsaw Zoo").

          Following the German takeover of Warsaw in September 1939, Antonina's husband, Jan, was a Zo