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Characters By Chapter
EDITOR:
Kristian Fabricante
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1JanZabinskiThe Zookeeper. Antonina's husband.
 AntoniErdmanAntonina's father. A Polish railroad engineer.
 AntoninaZabinskiThe Zookeeper's wife. Protagonist.
 King JanSobieski IIIThe King who loves to keep exotic animals.
 Adam The large elk.
 Tofi Antonina's lynx kittens.
 Tufa Antonina's lynx kittens.
 RyszardZabinskiAntonina and Jan's eldest son.
2AdolfThe KidnapperThe ringleader of the rhesus monkeys.
 Martha The oldest female rhesus monkey.
 Nelly Adolf's favorite mate.
 Rose The giraffe.
 Mary The African hunting dog.
 Sahib The petting-zoo colt.
 Dr.LopatynskiThe zoo vet.
 Dr.RembiszewskiDoctor. Planted electric fence used to jolt deers from crops.
 Tuzinka Kasia's baby elephant.
 Kasia The elephant at Warsaw Zoo. Tuzinka's mother.
3MagdalenaGrossA sculptor.
 AdolfHitlerThe leader of the Nazi Party.
 Zoska Antonina's St. Bernard.
 Borsunio The baby badger.
 Marek Rys' friend.
 Zbyszek Rys' friend. The Gestapo's most wanted.
4Jas The male elephant. Tuzinka's father.
5Mrs.CaderskaThe owner of the lampshade store.
6MayorStarzynskiThe Polish mayor.
 Dr.MullerMember of the International Association of Zoo Directors.
 GeneralRommelThe commander of Warsaw's soldiers.
 HansFrankHitler's lawyer.
7CasimirFunkThe Polish biochemist.
 LutzHeckZabinski's acquaintance at International Association of Zoo Directors.
 LudwigHeckLutz's father. Director of Berlin Zoo.
 HeinzHeckDirector of Munich Zoo. Lutz's son.
 HermannGoringThe Nazi Reichmarshal.
 JosephGoebbelsThe Nazi propaganda minister.
8NikolaiPrzywalskiA Russian explorer.
 EugeneFisherFounder of the Institute of Anthropology. Heck's colleague.
 KonradLorenzA Nobel scientist.
 WernerHeisenbergThe physicist.
 Karl Von FrischThe biologist.
11ErnstSchaferThe naturalist.
 Morys Jan's piglet.
12GovernorFrankThe German governor.
 MichaelMazorA ghetto survivor.
 NormanDaviesThe British-Polish historian.
 SvenHedinThe Nazi apologist.
 AdamEnglertJan's friend.
 WandaEnglertAdam's friend.
13FrancisOf AssisiPatron Saint of Animals.
14EwaBrzuskaThe owner of a tiny grocery. Aka: Babcia.
 EmanuelRingelblumJan's bunker mate.
 OrnaJagurOne of Jan's bunker mates.
 WalterGropiusThe architectural leader.
15DangluLeistThe German President of Warsaw.
 JulianKulskiWarsaw's Polish Vice President.
 Dr. SyzmonTenenbaumA famous entomologist.
 LoniaTenenbaumSyzmon's wife. A dentist.
 EugieniaSylkesZabinski's friend. Aka: Genia.
 RachelaAuerbachOne of Zabinski's friends.
 MariaAszerownaThe journalist.
 IrenaTenenbaumSyzmon and Lonia's daughter.
 JacquesHoffmanThe 7th child of Isaac.
 Isaac JudahEberstThe cantor.
 Mr.ZieglerDirector of the Warsaw Ghetto's labor bureau.
 JosephCornwellThe surrealist artist.
 ThomasEisnerThe man who discovered the secret chem. lab.
 JackKlajmanThe tough Ghetto child who survived the war.
 Frankenstein The German's major child.
 Zarka Tenenbaum's dachshund.
 MaciejRembiszewskiThe current Director of Warsaw Zoo.
17DidierRaoultA French biologist.
 LudwigFisherWarsaw's German Governor.
 Abraham J.HeschelThe writer of Hasidic mysticism.
 AvramDavisThe Hassidic teacher.
18MaurycyH. GruzinskiOwner of a refugee shelter.
 IrenaSendlerA Polish social worker.
 MagdalenaGrossAntonina's sculptor friend.
 AlicjaKacynzskaAuthor of Anne Frank.
19BrunoSchulzMagdalena's friend. A painter and prose writer.
 DeborahVogelThe Yiddish poet.
20EmanuelRingelblumHistorian who wrote book while hiding in a Warsaw Bunker.
   ZOB - Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa.
 HenrykGoldzmitA pediatrician. Aka: Janus Korzcak, Pan Doctor.
 Zi Henry's imaginary astronomer friend.
21Zegota A cryptonym from the council to aid the Jews.
 ZofiaJossakThe woman who founded Zegota. Aka: Weronika.
 WandaK. FilipowiczZofia's co-founder.
 AdolfBermanA Zionist party member.
 HenryWolinskiA member in the Polish Bar Association.
 Marek A member of Youth Sabotage Group.
 Dzius A member of Youth Sabotage Group.
 FoxManJan's assistant.
 Balbina Fox Man's female cat.
 Wicek The rabbit.
 Kuba The chick.
 Szczurcio The baby muskrat.
 Pietrasia Jan and Antonina's housekeeper.
 MarceliL. LebkowskiA well-known lawyer and activist.
 Nunia Marceli's daughter.
 EwaLebkowskiMarceli's daughter.
22FelixLandauA Gestapo officer.
23HeinrichHimmlerThe reichsfuhrer of the schutzstaffel.
 Maurycy P.FraenkelA musician. Aka: Pawel.
 JuditRingelblumEmanuel's wife.
 Piotr Maurycy's hamster.
24JurgenStroopCommander of an SS Brigade.
 VyascheslavM. MolotovThe foreign minister.
 ReginaKenigsweinThe new sable in Zabinski's house.
 SamuelKenigsweinRegina's husband.
 MiecioKenigsweinRegina and Samuel's son.
 StefcioKenigsweinRegina and Samuel's son.
 StasKenigsweinRegina and Samuel's son.
 FatherBoduenThe priest who helped the Kenigswein.
 ZygmuntPietakSamuel's catholic friend.
 SzapseRotholcSamuel's friend.
 Mr.SableRegina's father.
 EmiliaHizowaThe architect.
 Franciszka The sister-in-law of Jan's friend.
25FelixCywnskiThe former career officer.
 Dr. MadaWalterThe woman who opened the Institute De Beaute.
 WladyslawSmolskiA Polish author and member of Zegota.
 Dr. AndrzejTrojanowskiA Polish surgeon.
 JerzykTopoThe son of the carpenter.
 Mrs.TopoJerzyk's mother.
27Friedrich B. MarbyAn occultist and anti-nazi.
28Mrs.DewitzowaJan's former workmate.
 JaninaBuchholtzA psychologist. Jan's friend.
 BarbaraT. BermanJanina's colleague and friend. Aka: Basia.
 EvaHoffmanA Polish émigré.
   OBW - Ostdeutsche Bauwerkstutte.
 AnielaDobruckaJanina's friend.
29ArthurSchopenhauerA Gdansk-born philosopher.
30HowardFloreyA scientist.
 NormanHeatleyA scientist.
 DirectorMullerThe director of the Konigsberg Zoo.
 MarysiaGutowskiJan's cousin.
 NikolajGutowskiJan's cousin.
 TeresaZabinskiAntonina and Jan's daughter.
31HalinaDobrowolskaThe Home Army messenger.
 FeliksCywinskiMan who commanded brigade that included Samuel.
 JacekFedorowiczA Polish satirist.
 SylwesterBraunA Field reporter. Aka: Kris.
32AndrzejGrabskiThe son of the Polish ex-Prime Minister.
 Mrs.KokotThe local teacher.
 ZbyszekKokotMrs. Kokot's son.
 JedrekKokotMrs. Kokot's son.
33IrenaNawrockaHalina's first cousin.
35A. Harris The unofficial song of Warsaw.
 KazioKramsztykRoman's cousin.
 LudwiniaKramsztykRoman's cousin.
 RomanKramsztykA renowned painter.
 YaronBeckerA reporter.
 MalkaDruckerAn American Rabbi.
 GayBlockA photographer.
36HenryBestonThe author of the outermost house.
 JuliusCaesarThe former Roman Dictator.
 King Kazimierz IVThe Polish King.
 PiotrAikhenbaumA journalist.
 HermanReichenbachThe man who reviewed Piotr and Jean's book.
 ProfessorZThe professor at Pucek of the Bialowieza Nature Preserve.
 AmericanW. BeebeAn American Ornithologist.
 EmiliaHizowaThe inventor of Zegota's push-button sliding walls.
 
The Zookeeper's Wife suggested by Nancy Bingell
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