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Jules Verne, a schoolboy and a turkey in a sweater on the road to Auschwitz ; The Wednesday Book
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070620
Author:PAUL BAILEY
THE DIARY OF PETR GINZ
Ed by Chava Pressburger, trans Elena Lappin
ATLANTIC, [pound]16.99
Petr Ginz's mother was Aryan and his father Jewish, so he and his sister, Eva, were considered by the Nazis to be "first-degree Mischlings", or "mixed breeds". This prodigiously gifted boy began his diary in February 1941, when laws restricting access for Jews to large areas of Prague were imposed. He abandoned it in August 1942, two months before he was dispatched to Theresienstadt, that terrible halfway-house to the hells of Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka.
He was 14 when he arrived in the Nazis' ...
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