The Zookeeper’s Wife
By Diane Ackerman, this book tells us the story of the invasion of Poland in the viewpoint of a woman, mother, and wife, Antonita Żabiński. She makes a journal of the German invasion and the life at a zoo. That zoo was used to hide, feed, and help Jews and people who wanted to be out of the SS and the Gestapo’s radar. Jan, her husband, was an atheist who thought of making a difference in saving his country, Poland. He hid explosives, grenades, people and ammunition in the zoo cages. In the end of the war, we see that Antonita goes back to the zoo in Warsaw with two children, Ry’s and Teresa, and when Jan came back, they started rebuilding everything that the Germans had bombed and destroyed in the zoo