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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Chapter 36

Chapter 36

In this chapter, Ackerman tells us that the Nazis never quite succeeded in recreating the animals of the past.
Ironically, though, the Nazis "helped to save scores of rare plants and endangered animals" (36.9).
Ackerman visits Warsaw in 2005. She wanders the street and stares at a statue of a mermaid holding a sword (a.k.a., Ariel Gets Real).
Ackerman imagines that Antonina would have identified with the statue, "a defender half woman, half animal" (36.17).
The end.

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