Key facts
- Born
- ( 1928-02-01 ) 1 February 1928, Prague , Czechoslovakia
- Died
- 28 September 1944 (1944-09-28) (aged 16), Auschwitz-Birkenau , German-occupied Poland
- Cause of death
- Gassed to death
- Resting place
- Auschwitz concentration camp , Oświęcim , Poland
- Occupations
- Diarist, writer
- Known for
- Paintings and writings
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Place of death
- Auschwitz
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- editor-in-chief
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Native language
- Esperanto
- Image
- Petr ginz 345.png
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- date of birth
- 1928-02-01
- date of death
- 1944-09-29
- Commons category
- Petr Ginz
- place of detention
- Theresienstadt Ghetto
- name in native language
- Petr Ginz
- cause of death
- asphyxia
- start of work period
- 1941-00-00
- subject has role
- Holocaust victim
- name
- Petr Ginz
- end of work period
- 1945-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Petr Ginz
- place of burial
- Auschwitz
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Encyclopedic overview
Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (known as Terezín, in Czech) 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.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petr Ginz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.