Petr Ginz

✶February 1, 1928

†September 29, 1944

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About their life

Petr Ginz was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of sixteen when he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death upon arrival. His diary was published after his death.

Czech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)

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Biography from the article Petr Ginz on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.