2 real historical locations · Poland
Based on the true story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who used Warsaw Zoo's bombed-out enclosures to hide over 300 Jews from the Ghetto. Jessica Chastain plays Antonina, who harboured refugees under the nose of the German commandant who took over the zoo.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland.
Jan and Antonina Żabiński use Warsaw Zoo — emptied of animals by German bombing — to hide hundreds of Jewish refugees under German noses.
The Żabińskis sheltered approximately 300 Jews in the zoo villas, enclosures, and tunnels between 1942-1945. Jan had official access as city horticulture inspector, regularly crossing into the ghetto to smuggle people...
View location →Jan Żabiński regularly crosses the ghetto wall to bring food and help individuals escape to the zoo.
The Warsaw Ghetto wall was 3 metres high and 18km long, topped with barbed wire. Smuggling — of food in, and people out — was punishable by death. Jan used his official vehicle and a network of sewer workers to move p...
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