Subhumans and Superbeasts: Bisons and Jews in the Warsaw Zoo

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Nov 6, 11, 23:34 #1

This documentary was originally produced in Polish and now available in English

In late 1939, as the Germans occupied Warsaw, the city zoo became a sanctuary for hundreds of Polish Jews, who were hidden in the lions' cages by Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the zoo. Most of those who were hidden were ultimately smuggled out of the country to freedom. But there's a dark parallel tale within this story: while the Zabinskis were helping to save a race of people from extermination, Germany's eminent zoologist, Lutz Heck, had commandeered the Warsaw zoo in order to try and re-introduce, through rudimentary genetic engineering, an extinct species of ox known as the aurach.

Produced by David Mairowitz and Malgorzata Zerwe

You can listen to it here

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2011/3352395.htm

onesuchThreads: 4 Posts: 7 Joined: Oct 27, 11 ♂	Nov 8, 11, 05:24 #2
Here is a 29 minute documentary. Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo Full Movie Fascinating movie. http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3786670617/

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,225 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Nov 8, 11, 16:19 #3
Thanks for the link.

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