fter their zoo was bombed, Polish zookcepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three bundred pcople from the Nazis by hiding refu- gees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," " and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zao's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star.® Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, forgotten, true-life story-sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism.