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Polish writer, Righteous Among the Nations (–)

Antonina Maria Żabińska, néeErdman (18 July – 19 March ), 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.

Life

Antonina Żabińska's literary debut was a short story, "Pamiętnik żyrafy" ("Memoirs of a Giraffe"), in Moje pisemko (My Magazine, ).

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Another story, "Jak białowieskie rysice zostały Warszawiankami" ("How Female Lynxes from the Białowieża Forest Became Warsaw Residents") appeared in as the first part of an "Opowieści przyrodnicze" ("Nature Tales") series.

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 , Antonina's husband, Jan, was a Zoo director, was appointed by the ne