The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941–1942

Synopsis

&“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 His diaries—recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstances—are an invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child&’s insuppressible hunger for life.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

Copyright:

2007

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

192 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780802195463

Related ISBNs:

9780802143600

Publisher:

Grove Atlantic

Date of Addition:

09/28/23

Copyrighted By:

Petr Ginz, Chava Pressburger, Jonathan Safran Foer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Chava Pressburger

Introduction by:

Jonathan Safran Foer