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Antonina later gives birth to a baby girl, Teresa.

Jan decides to join the Warsaw Uprising, and the couple reconciles before he leaves. While hidden Jews mournfully celebrate a secret Passover Seder, the Germans burn down the Ghetto. Several months later, after the failed uprising, Germans liquidate the Ghetto on Hitler's birthday, also the first night of Passover. In 1943, two women rescued by Jan and disguised as Aryans by Antonina are discovered and executed outside their boarding house. Becoming aware of Heck's obvious feelings for his wife, a rift begins to form between the couple. Jan has no choice but to help load children into the cattle cars bound for the death camps. At a loading station, Jan tries to convince Janusz Korczak, head of the Jewish children's orphanage, to escape with him, but he will not leave the children. In 1942, Germans begin transporting Jews to death camps. Antonina takes a particular interest in her, treating her the same way she would treat a frightened animal, until she emerges to join other 'guests' in the Zabinskis' home. Jan also rescues a young girl, Urszula, who was raped by German soldiers. But if it is played in the daytime, they must hide. When Antonina plays the piano late at night, it means it is safe to come out of hiding. Jews are hidden in the zoo's cages, tunnels, and inside the Żabińskis’ house. When Jan collects garbage inside the Ghetto, he also hides people in the trucks, to bring them to the zoo, working with the Underground Army to later transport them to safehouses throughout the country. Heck, wanting a new site for his experiments in recreating aurochs as a symbol of the Reich, agrees. They propose Heck turn the abandoned zoo into a pig farm, to feed the occupying forces, secretly hoping to sneak people out of the Ghetto. Despite the risk, Jan and Antonina use the zoo to hide others and save more lives. The Żabińskis' Jewish friends, Maurycy Fraenkel and his partner Magda Gross, seek a safe place for a friend's insect collection. Offering to house their prized animals in Berlin until after the war, he then returns with soldiers to shoot the others, revealing his hidden brutality.

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Lutz Heck, head of the Berlin Zoo and Adolf Hitler's chief zoologist and Jan's professional rival, visits the zoo while Jan is away as Hitler's chief zoologist he's to run the Warsaw Zoo. Antonina and her son Ryszard barely survive. On 1 September 1939, the aerial bombardment of Warsaw and Invasion of Poland commences. Jan Żabiński is director of the Warsaw Zoo, one of the largest in 1930s Europe, assisted by his wife, Antonina. It received mixed reviews from critics but a positive response from audiences and grossed $26 million worldwide. The film was released in the United States on 31 March 2017, by Focus Features, and by Universal Pictures International in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2017.

The film had its world premiere on 8 March 2017 in Warsaw, Poland, the location of the story, followed by its US premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, on 12 March 2017. It stars Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl and Michael McElhatton. The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Polish Jews from the Germans by hiding them in their Warsaw zoo during World War II. The Zookeeper's Wife is a 2017 war drama film directed by Niki Caro, written by Angela Workman and based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction book of the same name.

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