Elephants at the Cologne Zoo. A 93-year-old widow from the United States has donated $22 million to the zoo in Cologne, Germany, saying she wanted to give back to the city where she and her husband met during the Second World War, German media reported on Friday. "We never forgot Cologne," Elizabeth Reichert told the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper by phone from her home in Philadelphia. Shortly before her husband died in 1998, the childless couple agreed to bequeath their money to the Cologne Zoo after their deaths. The couple had already shown their affection for the zoo in 1954, when they gifted a soft-shell turtle.

Source: The Local September 01, 2017 12:22 UTC