Jan Zabinski meets a friend involved with the doctors that go in the Ghetto. Jan takes advantage of that and goes inside the Ghetto. He smuggles Jewish friends out of the Ghetto with fake papers and hides them in his villa and empty animal cages. With the help of his wife, Antonina, she prepared all the "guests" and where they would stay. Antonina and Rys would deliver food to the "guests", or the hiding Jews, in the empty animals cages. The zoo got a little extra food for cheaper to feed the "animals", but really the Zabinski's feed the Jews. That is also why the Zabinski's named the humans animal names and animals human names. They had a housekeeper who didn't know about the hiding Jews, so they had to call the people in the empty animal cages by a code which was animal names.
Not only did Antonina and Jan save about three hundred Jews, they also helped many animals. Any …show more content…
Both times he survived. Jan was separated from Antonina, Rys, and Teresa. The family thought Jan was dead, but amazingly he survived. During the uprising of Warsaw, Jan had to fight. Antonina, Rys, and Teresa moved to the other town with a friend and when they returned home everything that was in there was stolen, but they were happy their villa was still standing. They build up their home and sometimes the Jews came back and thanked them. A few years after the war Jan and Antonina started up the zoo again. Lutz Heck even shipped back the rare animals he took. Because of this family all together they saved around 300 Warsaw