Daughter of couple who hid Jews at Warsaw Zoo dies

(JTA) — The daughter of a Polish couple who rescued Jews by hiding them at Warsaw’s zoo has died.

Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki died Sunday at the age of 77, the Warsaw Zoo wrote on Facebook. The statement did not specify the cause of death. She was born in 1943 at the zoo when Warsaw was occupied by Nazi Germany.

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