The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942

The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942
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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780802195463
ISBN-13 : 0802195466
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Download or read book The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942 written by Petr Ginz and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Recalling the diaries of . . . Anne Frank, Ginz’s diaries reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis.” —International Herald Tribune Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. His stunningly mature paintings, drawings, and writings reflect his insatiable appetite for learning and experience and openly display his growing artistic and literary genius. Petr was killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. His diaries—recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstances—are an invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child’s insuppressible hunger for life. “Given his unprecedented situation, his words were unprecedented. He was creating new language. He was creating life . . . The diary in your hands did not save Petr. But it did save us.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Everything Is Illuminated


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