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Petr Ginz (1928–1944)

Author of The Diary of Petr Ginz

Includes the names: P. Ginz, Petr Ginz, פטר גינז

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Ginz, Petr
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Ginz, Petr
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Ginz, Peter
Date of birth
1928-02-01
Date of death
1944-09-28
Burial location
Auschwitz
Gender
male
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Czechoslovakia
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Birthplace
Place of death
Auschwitz
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Prague, Czechoslovakia
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Education
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Pressburger, Chava (sister)
Ginz, Otto (father)
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Short biography
Petr Ginz, born in Prague in 1928 of a Jewish father and a gentile mother, spent his adolescence in the Theresienstadt ghetto. He was remarkably talented at writing and drawing and edited the youth newspaper Vedem ‘We are the Leaders’. He died in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944, when he was sixteen.

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