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WARSAW, Poland -- A man who went missing after tangling with a brown bear at Warsaw's zoo, leaving traces of blood, was found Thursday in the hospital. The 32-year-old man, being treated for an ...
Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki’s parents rescued about 300 Jews, who lived in tunnels underneath the park. (JTA) — The daughter of a Polish couple who rescued Jews by hiding them at Warsaw’s zoo ...
A 23-year-old visitor at the Warsaw Zoo in Poland has been sentenced to steep fines and community service after entering a bear enclosure on Thursday and tussling with the animal, allegedly while ...
Though a professed lover of animals, he didn't hesitate to kill the four-legged denizens of the Warsaw Zoo; he also launched a Jurassic Park-style breeding program attempting to resurrect extinct ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Scientists at Warsaw’s zoo have been taking blood, saliva and other samples from the zoo’s three elephants in recent days to prepare to test whether giving them hemp ...
The little-known story of how 300 Jews were saved by hiding beneath animal cages is the subject of a new museum opening next month in the Polish capital.
Warsaw zoo to open new Holocaust museum for children Through the heroism of director, Jan Zabinski, and his wife, Antonina, Jews found refuge in the menagerie’s underground warren during WWII ...
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The fate of a Warsaw zoo during the Nazi occupation might seem like a tiny historical footnote, but as director Niki Caro’s handsome drama shows, the way people treat animals is a good indicator ...
By Hannah Crooks [email protected] When she unearthed the history of the heroic — but vastly unknown — couple Jan and Antonina Zabinski, author Diane Ackerman knew it was a story meant to be ...