The Zookeeper's Wife

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, I went to see the movie The Zookeeper's Wife, featuring Jessica Chastain.

This movie is based on a real story of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo before the German occupation (World War II) of 1939.  They housed Jewish refugees at their zoo and found them safehouses.

It was a Holocaust movie, and even though the history is the same, and sometimes the approaches to these films are similar, this movie talked about the local fighters that fought against German troops, which is a fact that is glossed over.  Of course, a movie like this is always difficult to watch.

But it was well done.