Not since Anne Frank’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. 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 His diaries—recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstances—are an invaluable historical document and a testament to one remarkable child’s insuppressible hunger for life.
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1 of 7 people found the following review helpful. what justifies this?By H.C. CareyI would very much like to buy this book and read it. It seems like a worthy subject.Can someone explain to me why the Kindle ed. is over $43? Has the price of pixels been going up?Now I won't buy it simply on principle. I suppose--maybe--I can understand a $45 hardback; and no paperback; but $45?Shame on you; JHU press
