10/18/20 The Zookeeper’s Wife

From 2007 comes this conversation with Diane Ackerman about "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story," which recounts how the director of the Warsaw Zoo and his wife Antonina hid more than 300 Jews on the grounds of the zoo and assisted many of them in escaping to the countryside during World War II. The book was adapted into a major motion picture in 2017 that starred Jessica Chastain in the title role.