The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942

By Petr Ginz format: trade paperback publication: August 2008 ISBN: 9780802143600

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Petr Ginz was a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague. Six exercise books full of his writings and drawings were found in a house in Prague in 2003. Lappin, who translated his diaries from Czech, relates that he wrote daily reports in 1941 and 1942, the period before his deportation to Thernstadt concentration camp. There he continued to draw, paint, write, and read until he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, where he was killed at age 16. (Pressburger, who edited the diaries, is Petr's sister.) There are watercolors and linocuts, including illustrations of the novels of Jules Verne (his favorite author), the first part of one of Petr's novels, and a list of his literary writings. There is a long poem about the humiliating Nazi laws Jews were forced to accept, which satirizes not only the absurdity of the rules themselves but also the Jews' ability to live with them, and 11 family photographs. Also included is a list revealing the fate of his relatives and friends. This extraordinary personal diary is an important document.

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