Antonina zabinski biography of michael

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.

Antonina zabinski biography of michael

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