WWII Holocaust Heroes - Zookeeper's Jan and Antonina Zabinski

WWII Holocaust Heroes - Zookeeper's Jan and Antonina Zabinski

As many as 300 passed through the zoo, and many survived the war because of Jan and his wife.

 

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