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"One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence in a household where all dodged the ambient dangers, horrors, and uncertainties. That takes a special stripe of bravery rarely valued in wartime" (Ackerman 166).

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Ackerman, Diane. Book Club Kit. a War Story. W.W. Norton, 2007.

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Ackerman is very descriptive when explaining the Zabinskis and life at the time. She meticulously strings together adjectives to paint a picture of the scene. She uses complex adjectives to create interesting passages that enhances the story. She also used adjectives that usually had a strong relation to animals. In the book, Ackerman also described actions with very engaging verbs.This enhances the argument because using this imagery helped provide a clearer scene of the Zabinski's at the time, showing that they helped a large number of Jewish people and assisted the resistance. The tone of Ackerman's writing is heroic, strong and optimistic. However at times her tone is tragic usually when she describes the atrocities the Nazi's created. This enhances the argument by showing that the Zabinskis's were very heroic in their actions of helping the Jewish people and that the tone of tragedy showed that the Zabinskis's saved many Jewish people from terrible living conditions and low quality of life.

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Ackerman incorporated many literary and rhetorical devices into the book. One devices she used was anecdotes. Throughout the book, the author included many small stories in the book describing specific times at the Zabinskis's household or at times providing a short history of a person or animal. The anecdotes made the Zabinskis's closer to the reader and also gave us insight to the what life was like at the time. This enhances the argument by giving the reader a better idea of
how the Zabinskis's lived at the time and told of specific times in which they helped Jewish people and participated in the resistance.  Another device she used was foreshadowing. In the beginning of the story, she used foreshadowing to hint at the tragedy that would come when the Nazis invade. When the Nazis first came, the author used Antonina's journal entries that described her worry to foreshadow the terror that would follow. This enhances the argument by showing the terribleness of Warsaw at the time of Nazi's occupation and how the Zabinski's saved many Jewish people from a horrendence life in the Ghetto as well as how they helped the residents of Warsaw by working with the resistance. Another device Ackerman used was irony. Ackerman used irony when comparing the Nazis's treatment of the Jewish people to the Nazsi's treatment of animals. To the Nazis the Jewish people were pests that needed to be exterminated. To the Nazis animals were very important and many projects were started to preserve or restore the naturality of many different species. The author stated the irony of this situation and spoke of how they valued animals over the Jewish people. This enhances the argument by showing that the Nazi party treated the Jewish people worse than animals meaning that the Jews's living conditions were atrocious and exhibits the significance of the Zabinski's help.

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"Jan always shied away from praise and underplayed his bravery, saying such things as: 'I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger you save it, human or animal'"(Ackerman 143).

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"She never forgot her time at the zoo. 'The Zabinskis' home was Noah's Ark,'  Regina told an Israeli newspaper twenty years after the war 'with so many people and animals hidden there'" (Ackerman 310).

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The Zookeeper's Wife opens March 31, 2017. Get tickets & showtimes: http://regmovi.es/2nra5qh The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

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Real pictures of the Zabanski's and life at the zoo during Nazi's occupation of Warsaw. 

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Real pictures of the Zabanski's and life at the zoo during Nazi's occupation of Warsaw. 

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A remarkable zookeeper and his wife saved 300 Jews from the Gestapo during World War II by stowing them away in animal cages at Warsaw Zoo. Jan and Antonia Zabinski's heroic defiance is the subject of a forthcoming film.

The couple would cunningly play opera music to warn their secret lodgers whenever the Nazi death squads were approaching - thereby giving them a chance to hide in the grounds of the zoo. The pair's daughter and one of the many they so fearlessly protected spoke to MailOnline.

Moshe Tirosh, 80, was a small boy when he raced out of Warsaw's Jewish Quarter with his mother and father in 1943. The Nazis were in hot pursuit when the family stumbled upon the zoo, which became known as 'Noah's Arc'.

The three of them, like so many, were shown unparallelled kindness by the Zabinskis, whose saintliness was recorded in a 2007 book The Zookeeper's Wife.

Tirosh said: "My parents hid in one of the monkey cages while my little sister and I took shelter in the basement of the villa. We had escaped from the Warsaw ghetto by hiding in padded sacks which my father threw over the wall.

"He and my mother then climbed over the wall and we made our way to the Zabinskis at the zoo. Hiding in a zoo, yes, it's weird. But to be honest, it was a sanctuary for myself and our family.

"My main memory is that I was no longer hungry. Mrs Zabinski took care of us like a mother, giving us a feeling of trust and safety.

"I spent the entire time with my little sister, all I did was make sure she didn't cry or scream. It was so unnatural for a six-year-old boy to cover his four-year-old sister's mouth to stop her from screaming or crying too loudly.

"We couldn't go out because it was too dangerous, so we had to spend the whole time in hiding. By that time I arrived at the zoo, I was no longer a boy. I'd seen death and people die, I saw war. My Father said to me, 'Moshe, to live you need to be very quiet', and I did as I was told.

"There was no space for me to be scared. I had my little sister to look after and take care of, I had to be the grown-up.

"We spent our whole time in hiding inside the basement of the zoo. There were always people coming in and out, staying for a night or longer. I remember sitting under the window and holding my sister and keeping my hand on her mouth for hours to make sure she wouldn't make a noise.

"Even today, when I approach my sister she has an automatic step back, as if I am going to keep her quiet. The Zabinski's son, Ryszard, brought us food every day, three times a day. He would also take our waste and take care of us.

"I don't remember what the food was, but remember that I never felt hungry, that was a big deal for us in those times.'

Their daughter Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki, 73, also spoke to the MailOnline an anticipation of a film adaptation of The Zookeper's Wife, which is released on 31 March.

She said: "If the Germans had known what my parents were doing they would have been executed, as would the rest of us. My father took people out of the ghetto and my mother gave them refuge in our house.

"Whenever the Germans came, mother would alert everyone by playing a piece from Offenbach's operetta Belle Helena called Go to Crete. Everyone was always on edge knowing that when mother began playing, danger was close.

"The Gestapo and soldiers came very often but after they left she would play Chopin's Mazurka to let everyone know it was safe to come out of hiding

"Our guests at the villa would go into hiding, some in the attic, some in a wardrobe. Others would go through a little tunnel in the basement and into the garden where they would hide in the bushes or the animal cages.

"My parents were ordinary people who did something extraordinary. After the war, my father used to say that he and my mother had only done what needed to be done and that people should be decent and show honour in the face of horror."

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The Zookeeper's Wife: True story of 1940s Warsaw couple who hid Jews in monkey cages

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A remarkable zookeeper and his wife saved 300 Jews from the Gestapo during World War II by stowing them away in animal cages at Warsaw Zoo. Jan and Antonia Zabinski's heroic defiance is the subject of a forthcoming film.

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In this book, Ackerman used many different appeals to persuade readers to the main argument. Ackerman used history, anecdotal and honor appeals. The history appeal is used in the book to show that the Zabinskis played a big part in Warsaw's history when they helped many Jews escape the ghettos and when the took part in Warsaw's resistance. That the Zabinskis' legacy is captured in Warsaw's history, showing the major influence they had. The anecdotal appeal is represented in the book by giving the reader small stories about the Zabinskis. The author would insert a story about a "guest" at their house or talk about a specific time when Jan participated in the Underground. These short stories gave the reader small examples of the argument. Ackerman used the appeal honor to show the main argument. The Zabinskis' didn't help so many Jews and help resistance against the Nazi's because they believed it would make them famous. Instead they did it because it was their beliefs that what the Nazi's were doing was wrong and that helping the Jews in anyway they could was the right thing to do.

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The author organizes this argument by first describing what life was like before the war when Jan and Antonina maintained the flourishing Warsaw zoo. The beginning focused on the busy and prosperous life of the zoo when the couples life revolved around caring for and providing for the exotic zoo animals. Antonina cared for these animals like they were her own children. The author wanted to establish the important characteristics of Jan and Antonina that made their ability to hide Jews and offer refuge in their home a success. Characteristics like Antonina's ability calm any nervous soul, the couple's leadership, and their kindness. Throughout the book the author continuously provides information on the conditions of Warsaw's ghettos and then alludes to the state of the Zabinski's household which was always giving shelter to a number of Jews. Showing that the Zabinski's gave many Jews a much higher quality of life by sheltering them from the abusive Nazi soldiers. This contrast captures the true positivity and symbiosis of the Zabinski's household. Another way that Ackerman enforced the main argument was that whenever Ackerman explained the harsh conditions of Warsaw inflicted by the Nazis, she would also explain how the underground resistance would try undermine that power and how the Zabinskis would participate in this sabotage. Showing that although the Nazi achieved almost complete power of Warsaw, the Zabaskins never surrendered and kept working by taking on leadership roles within the underground.

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By: Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman's main argument in the book was that Jan and Antonina Zabinski played a major role in hiding a large number of Jews and leading the resistance during Nazi's occupation of Warsaw.