Petr Ginz

Petr Ginz (born February 1, 1928 in Prague , Czechoslovakia , † September 28, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a young Czech draftsman and author and victim of the Shoa .

Live and act

Lunar landscape

Ginz was the son of a Czech Jewish father Ota (1896 in Ždánice u Kouřimi –1976 in Kirjat Jam , also Otto) and a Czech mother Marie (1898 in Čibuz near Hradec Králové –1990 in Israel , née Dolanská, later Mirjam or Miriam), who met at an Esperanto congress in 1921 , which is why Petr and his sister Eva spoke Esperanto in addition to Czech . He grew up in Prague and was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto in October 1942 during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia . He was a talented draftsman and wrote stories and novels based on Jules Verne . At the age of 14 he became the first and only editor of the youth magazine Vedem in the Theresienstadt ghetto. For many editions he was an author, editor and editor rolled into one. On September 28, 1944, he was deported from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was murdered in a gas chamber .

In 2003, Petr's sister Chava Pressburger (born in 1930 as Eva Ginzová), who had survived the Holocaust, received news from Prague that parts of his diaries had been found there in an attic in Modřany . In them, Petr describes the increasing restriction of the rights of Jews and the beginning deportation of Jewish neighbors during the German occupation in Prague between September 19, 1941 and August 9, 1942 in a precise and distant manner. The German edition of Ginz's diary was first published in 2006 published together with linocuts, drawings and six poems and stories from the time in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Honors and commemorations

Stumbling block

In Prague, Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block for Petr Ginz in front of Stárkova 4 .

In 2005 the Czech Post issued a 31 KČ stamp of the moon drawing and a portrait as a souvenir .

space

One of his drawings, which shows a lunar landscape, became famous in January 2003 because the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon took a copy of it on board the Columbia space shuttle . On this space flight, the Columbia was destroyed on February 1, 2003 when it re-entered the earth's atmosphere, with all astronauts dying. In memory of Ginz and Ramon, another copy of the drawing by Andrew Jay Feustel was taken into space as part of ISS Expedition 56 , and on Yom haScho'a 2018 he sent a video message from the International Space Station .

The asteroid 50413 was his honor Petrginz baptized.

Works

• Prague Diary, 1941-1942. Edited by Chava Pressburger (sister of the author). From the Czech by Eva Profousová, foreword by Mirjam Pressler . Bloomsbury, Berlin 2006 and 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-5245-2 (editions in Czech ( Deník mého bratra 2004), Spanish, Catalan and Esperanto published before, in English 2007).
• We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem , the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin . Ed. Zdeněk Ornest, Marie Rút Křížková, et al. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1995, ISBN 0-8276-0534-X .
• Návštěva z pravěku. Novel. Illustrated by Petra Ginze [Ed. Markéta Malisová]. Nakladatelství Franze Kafky, Praha 2007, ISBN 978-80-8691114-4 .

literature

• Ota Ginz: od Petra Ginze a raketoplánu Columbia ak olochovovi. From Jirí Frank. Sdruení Bývalých Vz ° u Koncentraního Tábora Schwarzheide, Prague 2006.
• Dream trip into space. Peter Ginz's incredible everyday notes. By Gabriela Hermer and Carsten Hueck, HR 2006.
• Petr Ginz: A boy from Prague and Theresienstadt. haGalil online 2006.
• Chava Pressburger about her brother and Theresienstadt: From the diary of Petr Ginz. From Sibylle Plogstedt. WDR 2007.
• The last flight of Petr Ginz. The Holocaust and the United Nations. 2012.
• As tragic, as literary as with Anne Frank. The records of young Jewish diaries in Amsterdam, Prague and Paris. By Renate Maurer. Deutschlandradio 2014.

music

• Cantata << in memoriam Petr Ginz >> for soprano, double choir, strings and organ by Stephan Reiss. First performed in 2007 in Bremen and Prague with the Disman Children's Choir of the Czech Radio and the Children's and Youth Choir in the Viertel, Bremen, under the direction of the composer.
• The Last Flight Of Petr Ginz. From John Califra. The Philharmonia Bulgaria under the direction of Christo Pavlov 2013
• Zhudebněná báseň Petra Ginze - Blázen. Author hudby: Linda Langerová. Camera a střih: Matouš Bičák. Nahrávka vznikla v rámci 3.kola soutěže "Převezměte terezínskou štafetu" v Terezíně 9-11 March 2012

Footage

• The last flight of Petr Ginz. Dir. By Sandy Dickson and Churchill Roberts. USA 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Petr Ginz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the Vedem magazine
• The lunar landscape
• Records of a boy who was murdered in a concentration camp.
• Petr Ginz at the Yad Vashem Memorial, Jerusalem.
• Petr Ginz on a page by Yad Vashem dedicated to the astronaut Ilan Ramon.
• Kaufhold-Lissner's review of Petr Ginz's diary (at fritz-bauer-institut.de; PDF file; 49 kB)
• Documents on Petr Ginz in the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague
• Ginz, Petr. In: Theresienstadt Lexicon.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doron Modan: La esperantisto kiu vojaĝis el la getto al la kosmo. Libera Folio, February 2, 2005, accessed June 10, 2020 (Esperanto). 
2. ↑ Javier Alcalde: La taglibroj de infano. Military account, January 4, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 (Esperanto). 
3. ↑ Martin Korcok: Chava Pressburger. Preserving Jewish memory - Bringing history to life. Centropa , May 2005, accessed June 10, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Central database of Holocaust victims. Yad Vashem , accessed June 10, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Petr Ginz's diary. Radio Prague International, January 27, 2005, accessed June 10, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Vychází známka s obrázkem nakresleným v Terezine. BBC Czech, January 20, 2005, accessed June 10, 2020 (Czech). 
7. ↑ Mark Garcia: Astronaut Drew Feustel Honors Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Replica of Drawing First Flown in Space by the Late Ilan Ramon. NASA , April 12, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 . 
8. ^ A Message of Holocaust Remembrance from Space - "Never forget those who were lost". Yad Vashem , April 12, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 . 
9. ↑ http://schule.judentum.de/nationalsozialismus/petr-ginz.htm
10. ↑ http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/2012/UN_Petr_Study-Guide.pdf
11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuzshPDH26k .
13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.