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Petr Ginz was a Czech Jewish writer, artist, and diarist. He was born on 1 February 1928 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to a Jewish family. He was the only child of Otto and Olga Ginz. At the age of eight, Ginz began writing stories and poems, and at the age of nine, he began to draw. He was a prolific writer and artist, and his works were published in various magazines and newspapers. In 1942, at the age of 14, Ginz was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. While in the camp, he wrote and drew extensively, and his works were smuggled out of the camp and published in various newspapers and magazines. In 1944, at the age of 16, Ginz was deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed. Petr Ginz was posthumously awarded the Order of the White Lion, the highest honor in the Czech Republic, in 2008. He was also honored with a Google Doodle in 2018. Petr Ginz's net worth is unknown.

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Occupation Diarist, writer
Age 16 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 1 February 1928
Birthday 1 February
Birthplace Prague, Czechoslovakia
Date of death (1944-09-28) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Died Place Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Nationality Slovakia

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2008

Ginz's drawing and its fateful history have inspired other pieces of art. One example is the painting Variation on Petr Ginz's Moon Landscape (2008) by Panamanian artist Roberto Perez-Franco.

2007

Before his transport, Ginz wrote a diary between 1941 and 1942 about his life. This diary, written in a matter-of-fact way, has been compared to that of Anne Frank. This diary was lost but found and published by his sister Eva (now Chava Pressburger) as Diary of My Brother. It was published in Spanish, Catalan, and Esperanto, as well as the original Czech, and in English in April 2007 as The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941–1942. A review appeared in an issue of The New York Times dated Tuesday 10 April 2007.

2003

Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, whose mother and grandmother were survivors of Auschwitz, was asked by S. Isaac Mekel, director of development at the American Society for Yad Vashem, to take an item from Yad Vashem onto the American Space Shuttle Columbia. Ramon carried with him a copy of a drawing by Ginz of the planet Earth as seen from the Moon. The shuttle, while reentering Earth's atmosphere, broke apart on 1 February 2003, destroying the copy of Ginz's drawing on what would have been his 75th birthday. In 2018, 15 years after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, another copy was given by Yad Vashem to Ilan's widow, Rona, to give to astronaut Andrew Feustel. Feustel carried it to space during Expedition 56 in memory of Ginz and Ramon. Feustel's video message commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2018/5778 featured the astronaut displaying Ginz's depiction of a view of Earth from the Moon. On February 1, 2020, Feustel gifted one of the copies of “Moon Landscape” brought to space to the Czech Center Museum Houston.

1944

Petr was assigned to one of the last transports to Auschwitz concentration camp from Terezín. He was murdered in the gas chambers in 1944. His diary has been published in English under the name: The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941–1942.

1942

According to the anti-Jewish laws of the Third Reich, children from mixed marriages were to be deported to a concentration camp at the age of 14. Young Ginz was transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in October 1942. His efforts in sciences and thirst for knowledge remained and he tried to study even in the concentration camp. He often read from a library full of confiscated books to which he had access. He was placed in Domov č.1 (Home No. 1, building L417). He became one of the most significant individuals of the community. He established and prepared for publication the periodical magazine Vedem, which means "We Lead". He also wrote an Esperanto–Czech dictionary as well as several other short novels that have since been lost. One such piece of writing is called "Rambles through Theresienstadt" in which he interviews people and comments on people, buildings, and even the crematorium.

The magazine was founded shortly after his arrival at Terezín in 1942. Besides Ginz, several other boys from the Domov č.1. also contributed. Petr Ginz became a chief editor and he contributed under the code name nz or Akademie (Academy). One of his closest collaborators was Hanuš Hachenburg who wrote many poems. Ginz gave most of his writings and paintings to his sister before his transport, so a majority have survived to today. His sister was also deported to Terezín in 1944, but she survived.

1928

Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of sixteen when he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death upon arrival. His diary was published after his death.