British Minister Visits the Żabiński Villa at the Zoo
The British minister’s visit to Warsaw is connected with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the German Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. At the ceremony held at the former camp. Representatives of forty two countries took part, among them Pickles who is the British Minister for Local Government.
Jan Żabiński Museum will open this spring in the villa, home of the long-term Warsaw Zoo director and his wife Antonina. Within the bombed-out garden of their home, the couple hid Jewish escapees from the Warsaw ghetto.
Among those who survived thanks to the Żabiński couple were sculptor Magdalena Gross and her husband, lawyer Maurycy Fraenkel, writer Rachela Auerbach, boxing champion Samuel Kenigswein, his wife and two children, Leonia and Irena Tenenbaum, wife and daughter of Szymon Tenenbaum, who perished in the ghetto.
In 1965, Jan and Antonina. Żabiński were honoured with the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
During his visit, the Minister was accompanied by representatives of the British Embassy and by Jonny Daniels, founder and President of "From the Depths" Foundation, which is an active partner in the opening of the Żabiński Museum on the Zoo grounds.
Source: PAP
Visit the virtual exhibition "The House under a Wacky Star" about Jews in hiding at the Warsaw ZOO.
