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March 31, 2017
In German-occupied Poland during the darkest days of World War II, a zookeeper and his wife managed to save the lives hundreds of Jewish people, many of whom were detained in the Warsaw Ghetto, by giving them shelter and refuge on the zoo grounds. This extraordinary true story is dramatized rather effectively in director Niki Caro's “The Zookeeper's Wife ,” based on the non-fiction book by the naturalist writer Diane Ackerman.
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