The Diary of Petr Ginz (2007 Ginz), book

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The Diary of Petr Ginz (2007) is the English edition of a diary written by Holocaust victim Petr Ginz (1928-1944) in 1941-1942 (age 12-14), while living in Prague under Nazi rule, before being deported to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.

Abstract

"Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, the secret diary of a fourteen-year-old prodigy who later died at Auschwitz describes with keen insight into Jewish life the increasing horror of his situation but also reveals a brilliant, droll teenager with a hunger for life."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007.