The Diary of Petr Ginz
by Edited by Chava Pressburger and Elena Lappin Translator
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- like new
- ISBN 10
- 0871139669
- ISBN 13
- 9780871139665
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About This Item
Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully records the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. With a child's keen eye for the absurd and the tragic, he muses on the prank he played on his science class and then, just pages later, reveals that his cousins have been called to relinquish all their possessions, having been summoned east in the next transport. The diary ends with Petr's own summons to Thereisenstadt, where he would become the driving force behind the secret newspaper Vedem and where he would continue to draw, paint, write, and read, furiously educating himself for a future he would never see. Fortunately, Petr's voice lives on in his diary, a fresh, startling, invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child's insuppressible hunger for life.
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- Bookseller
- Deb's Book Paradise (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43-26
- Title
- The Diary of Petr Ginz
- Author
- Edited by Chava Pressburger and Elena Lappin Translator
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0871139669
- ISBN 13
- 9780871139665
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press (April 10, 2007)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- April 10, 2007
- Pages
- 192
- Keywords
- Holocaust Biography; Holocaust history
- Bookseller catalogs
- biography and memoir;