Synopses & Reviews
Not since Anne Frankand#8217;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.and#160; 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 His diariesand#151;recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstancesand#151;are an invaluable historical document andand#160;a testament toand#160;one remarkable childand#8217;s insuppressible hunger for life.
Synopsis
As a 14-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 His recently discovered diaries are an invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child's hunger for life.