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Creative documentary 'Of Animals and Men' gets lost in translation
There are scenes of parts of the zoo that remain intact or were found to be "in the spirit" of the original zoo. Czajka spends a little too much time on the cruel Nazi hunting party that took place in the zoo on Jan. 1, 1940. One soldier stabs a wild boar over and over and then watches it limp off to die. Then again, this could be an analogy for what the Nazis did to the Jews and others they found unacceptable.
Czajka calls his bio a "creative documentary," and it is certainly that. I think he wanted us, as his audience, to be just as creative as he is in how we experience and understand the story. This works to some extent because we want to see the zoo and the animals and learn what happened to the family and the people they heroically hid for a day or for a month. So we go on what could be a ride of hope in a time of terror — if it weren't for the irritating, sing-song-y, often childish toned narra
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‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’: 15 Facts About the Real Story Not in the Movie
The real Antonina Zabinski
Born in Russia in 1908, Antonina Zabinski lost both her parents in the Russian Revolution. As an adult, she was a teacher and also wrote many children’s books about animals. She was never trained as a zoologist but learned how to care for animals from her husband, Jan. She seemed to really cherish and relate to animals because, in her mind, most humans couldn’t be trusted.
The real Jan Zabinski
Dr. Jan Zabinski was the director of the Warsaw Zoo. He had written numerous books about animal behavior and biology. His daughter, Teresa Zabinski, said this about him: “My father was not a sentimental man and he was quite serious. But at the same time, he had an incredible sense of humor.”
Clearly, he also had an incredible sense of compassion, since he was willing to risk his life to save strangers.
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Daughter of couple who hid Jews at Warsaw Zoo dies
Zabinska-Zawadzki’s older brother, Ryszard Zabinski, died in 2019.
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTATeresa Zabinska-Zawadzki died Sunday at the age of 77, the Warsaw Zoo wrote on Facebook. The statement did not specify the cause of death. She was born in 1943 at the zoo when Warsaw was occupied by Nazi Germany.
Zabinska-Zawadzki’s older brother, Ryszard Zabinski, died in 2019.
During World War II, their parents, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, hid about 300 Jews whose lives were saved. Jan Zabinski, a lieutenant in the Polish resistance, was the zoo’s director and sheltered the Jews in underground pathways connecting the animal cages. He also used the zoo to store arms for the resistance.
In 2017, the couple’s actions were made into a feature film, “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” starring Jessica Chastain.
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