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Does this feature find courage and resolve within its hardship narrative or is it just a forgetful film with a wartime backdrop?īeginning in 1939, Antonina Żabińska (Jessica Chastain) and her husband Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh) are the owners of a zoo in Warsaw, Poland. Now, Hollywood has returned their camera lens back on the Holocaust as Focus Features and director Niki Caro present the film The Zookeeper’s Wife. As one could imagine, Hollywood, just like there fascination with war movies of World War II, has developed many movies depicting of such events, including films like Schindler’s List, The Pianist, Life is Beautiful, Defiance, The Boy in the Stripe Pajamas, and Woman in Gold just to name a few. Some, who survived the war, have documented their accounts in books and interviews, presenting their experiences to lay bare for their entire world to see of such a dark period in history. Tortured, dehumanized, and forced into camps, the people of the Jewish faith faced a terrible deprivation during World War II. While fought the war was fought on land, sea, and air, the holocaust genocide of the Jewish people, deemed unworthy by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, was a horrific event and a black mark of human history. From the Europe to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, WWII in encompass many nations that faced violence of war on both the battlefield as well as the survival of civilians. A MILD, BUT STILL A POIGNANT HOLOCAUST FEATUREįrom victories, hardships, and atrocities, the historical references of World War II have been well-documented, weaving the tales of thousands into an intricate tapestry of war.