Friends!

In Ukrainian cinemas, recently has started the interesting movie called " The Zookeeper's Wife." The plot is built on the penetrating story, that actually occurred during World War II.

The film is about heroism of couple of Jan and Antonina Zhabynsky. He was a zoologist at Warsaw zoo. She was a writer. In September 1939, Warsaw Zoo was fired and badly damaged. Some animals were killed, others fled, some Germans evacuated to other zoos. But many vacant spaces appeared. There Zhabynsky hid Jews, which secretly fled to the zoo from the Warsaw ghetto. Yang personally helped them - allegedly traveled to the ghetto in search of waste to feed pigs, who also lived at the zoo. The exposure was incredible, because the former family friend of Zhabynsky Lutz Heck was the senior Nazi official. He was in love with Antonina and tried always to be near.

But this did not prevent Zhabynsky to save about 300 Jews. Among the survivors, incidentally, was also known sculptor Magdalena Gross. For this heroic act in 1965, the Israeli Yad Vashem Institute awarded the family the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

Insightful book about the history Zhabynsky in 2007 was created by the American writer Diane Ackerman. She wrote it based on the diaries of Antonina. This work formed the basis of the film. Stares of the film are laureate of "Golden Globe" Jessica Chastain and the famous actor Daniel Brühl.

Friends! Stories like the one that formed the basis for the movie " The Zookeeper's Wife " – are special. They not only remind us of the terrible pages in history, but also learn that even in the worst moments when next to you there are war, death, murder and violence you should be a human and do good things.