Warsaw zoo, Warsaw, Poland
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Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo (2009) - In the opening days of World War II, the Nazis occupy Warsaw. In a display of extraordinary courage and commitment, zookeeper Jan Zabinski decides to hide the citys most endangered residents in his home.
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo is a tribute to ordinary people who find
themselves in extraordinary circumstances - people who choose to risk
their own lives in order to save the lives of others. Jan Zabinski,
his wife Antonina, and son Ryszard were three such people.
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo is dedicated to the memory of all those
innocents lost during that time.
Of the 20,000 who fled the Warsaw Ghetto, more than 11.000 survived
with the help of approximately 60,000 residents of Warsaw.
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo reminds us of the consequences of hatred
and intolerance, a timely reminder more than 60 years after The
Holocaust.
The film is also a tribute to those who would risk their own lives to
save their neighbors in peril.
He was director of the Warsaw Zoo before the outbreak of World War II
and additionally superintendent of the city's public parks during the
Nazi occupation. He his wife Antonina and their son Ryszard used their
personal villa and the zoo itself to shelter hundreds of displaced
Jews.
The Warsaw Zoo is a great place to spend time for
adults or children. Admission: Adults zł 12, Children zł 6,
Children under three years are free. edit
Lemurs eating weeds at the Warsaw Zoo.
Next to the park, there is a Warsaw Zoo, which lures the guests with
new attractions prepared for the visitors.
About 200 meters away from the hotel, there is a huge shopping center
(Warszawa Wilenska), which is a paradise for shoppers.
that belongs to the Warsaw Zoo located nearby. Looking out of the
window you can observe them relaxing in the sun.
The only disadvantage that I have noticed in the hotel is the lack of
rooms prepared for the non-smokers only.
Zoo keeper`s Wife ",how Warsaw Zoo director Jan Zabinski and his wife
Antonina sheltered hundreds of Jews from German forces on the grounds
of the zoo in their home .
Ryszard Zabinski, son of the heroic Warsaw zookeepers in his
Warsaw apartment (Photo by Piotr Bujnowicz)
The latest Holocaust documentary from Blue Heron International
Pictures has become a blockbuster hit around the world since its
release last March.
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo is under consideration for seven awards at
the upcoming Crystal Reel Awards ceremonies, sponsored in September by
the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association. Produced by
Feliks Pastusiak and Alex Ringer (Israel). Associate Producer (USA):
Charlie Carlson.
Book Chronicles Warsaw Zoo as Refuge in WWII
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Talk of the Nation, January 18, 2008 · During World War II, Warsaw zoo
director Jan Zabinski
Send Photo to a FriendThe Warsaw Zoo (in Praga district , just
opposite the Old Town) is certainly a great place to spend a warm
summer afternoon!
The point is not only to see the animals, but also the beautiful park
with well kept flower -beds
Send Photo to a FriendIf you like places like that, Warsaw Zoo is the
place to go! People go there for walks, with kids and on dates (beware
though, my bro took his girl on a date there and she almost got hit
with monkey`s poo ;).
organizations from around the world, Warsaw zoo was reconstructed and
re-opened in 1949. Recently the Zoo has celebrated its 75th
anniversary.
Over the last several years the Zoo has changed greatly.
in early May, but Warsaw Zoo will have to wait a little longer for
them. Thus, from May 4, visitors will have a chance to see places
which later on will be off limits-the elephant run's rear, the bedroom
and the elephant canteen.
March 11, Warsaw Zoo turned 75. Celebrations were not restricted to
the day itself; according to Ewa Zbonikowska, director of the garden's
educational department, May 2 will be a great day for the zoo.
Warsaw Zoo opened March 11, 1928, on Ratuszowa Street. It was not the
first zoological garden in Warsaw; King Jan Sobieski III kept a court
menagerie in Wilanów. Several private zoos were also established in
Warsaw in the 19th century. In 1926, M.
people at the Warsaw Zoo were not. They all survived the war, except
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Even as the Warsaw zoo was losing its most valuable animals to
death and deportation, it now acquired what was undoubtedly one
of the rarest species of the times: live Jews.
The Warsaw zoo, which but for the outbreak of the war would have
played host in 1940 to the International Association of Zoo
Directors (a tribute to the growing reputation of its director,
Warsaw zoo in 1989 he recalled his mother taking him to a local
store where the shopkeeper said: "My dear lady, your son looks
like a little Jew.
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