"Good morning: My Lion King!... Hello: Elephant family!... Oh, cute little camel: The inspection time is up, hurry up!" My name is Antonina, the wife of the zoo's director Jane. I like to greet every animal in the zoo every day by riding a bicycle in the sunshine: greeting them, caring about them, and treating them as my own children!
Animals are very human and can understand people. For example, elephants I like very much: When I shake their long noses, they will keep swaying, and their limbs will twist up and down rhythmically like dancing. That day, the elephant mother gave birth at night, but the baby elephant did not breathe and lay motionless on the ground after giving birth! When I was at the reception party, I rushed to the scene after hearing the news, and the German officer Lutz (zoologist) also followed.
When I was about to squat down to look at the baby elephant, the elephant’s mother curled my right hand with the trunk of the elephant vigilantly. At this moment, when the urgency is not reasonable, I was so anxious that I almost cried, and I begged it to let me. Try... it understands!
After I checked the baby elephant’s nose carefully and found that there was a foreign body inside, Lutz squeezed his abdomen for heart rate resuscitation, and the baby elephant immediately sensed his nose to ventilate! The belly also has ups and downs, it is resurrected! marvelous! People cheered again and again! I am very grateful that Lutz will not go so smoothly without his help.
This impression was shattered after Warsaw was occupied by German forces in 1939! Lutz has become a colonel, with greater power and ambition! Many Jews were arrested, many Jews were killed, and now even the animals in the zoo are not spared! I said that protecting and cherishing animals is also a guise, and now even ordinary animals are killed one by one: the elephant crashes down after the tragic death, the baby camel gets a headshot, and even the eagle was taken by Lutz when he flew over the eaves. The target! I was hiding behind the curtains, and I could see clearly, and I was trembling all over, I really want a gun to kill them all!
But I must be calm, restrain myself, and think long-term. When my husband Jane told me about helping a few Jews escape from Poland, I did not hesitate to give my full support, and planned to use pig raising as ears and eyes to help them. When we applied to Lutz, he also had selfish intentions against us. And he.
He wants to fulfill his dream of cultivating bison breeds and the zoo is the ideal place, so we need to pay special attention to Lutz. He often comes to the zoo, and sometimes Jane will take care of me and get close to me when he is not there. I am not happy. , But in order to save more people, I have to hold him steady!
During the day, I play the piano as a signal to notify the Jews in the basement, and play the piano at night as a sign of safety: they can come up to the party with confidence when they hear it! In this way, when 10 people, 20 people, 100 people, 200 people, and the number of rescuers reached 300 people, her husband Jane was not satisfied with the status quo. He joined the resistance army to attack the Germans, and was injured and lost contact in a battle.
I went down in desperation to ask Lutz for help, and he directly asked me what would I give him back? Seeing his greedy eyes, I took off my jacket and unbuttoned my dress. He questioned my dedication and rudely pressed me to the bed. He was jealous that I love Jane and would do everything for him! He asked me to confess how I felt at this time, and I told him that it was disgusting!
After he heard this, he was angry and retaliated against my son: I felt that the sky was about to fall when he was holding a gun at his son, and my bitter pleading made him retain a trace of humanity. Soon after the German army was defeated and evacuated from Poland, we rebuilt the zoo, and Jane returned as she wished to reunite our family!
The little girl also likes to listen to these real historical stories from me and Jane. She always likes to ask: "You sent out so many Jews in the basement one by one in disguise. Aren't you afraid?" "Baby, of course we are afraid! We love animals but more. Lovers, they are our compatriots, they are all innocent people!"
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