Petr Ginz
Petr Ginz (February 1 1928–1944) was a young Czechoslovak boy of Jewish descent who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp, during the Holocaust. At age fifteen, Ginz was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died in a gas chamber.
Ginz was a very talented boy. At the age of fourteen, he became the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine Vedem, written, edited, and illustrated entirely by young boys at Terezín. He also wrote an Esperanto-Czech dictionary. His parents were well known Esperantists, thus he became a native Esperanto speaker.
A copy of a drawing by Ginz of the planet Earth as seen from the moon was taken by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon onto the Space Shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated upon its reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. The asteroid 50413 Petrginz was named in his honour.
Ginz's diary has only recently been discovered and published in Spanish, Catalan and Esperanto, as well as the original Czech. It was published in English in April 2007. There was a book review in the New York Times, on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 by Ashley Parker.
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