How the Warsaw Zookeepers Risked Their Lives to Shelter Jews (Live Digital Program)

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Address: 7000 North MoPac Expressway Suite 200, Austin, TX, 78731, US
Telephone: 512-795-8900
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Event details
Calendar	Speaking Engagements
Location	Facebook Live
Date	Wed, Apr 1, 8:30am - 9:30am
Duration	1h
Details	Join Museum historians Edna Friedberg and Patricia Heberer Rice live on Facebook to learn about the true story behind the book and movie, The Zookeeper’s Wife. You do not need a Facebook account to watch our Facebook Live videos. Inspiration can be found even in the most challenging times. During World War II, the Warsaw Zoo director, Jan Żabińska, and his wife, Antonina, endangered their own lives to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto—hiding them in their home and on zoo grounds. Speaker Patricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Moderator Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Watch live on the USHMM's Facebook page and join in the conversation using #USHMM and #AskWhy
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