Petr Ginz (1928 - 1944)
Born in Prague, Ginz was a multi-talented youth, who drew and wrote essays, short stories and poems from an early age. Following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he was expelled from school due to the racial laws. In 1942, he was deported to Terezin where he continued to draw and write. Together with friends in the youth barracks, Ginz edited and published the clandestine newspaper Vedem (We Are Leading). In the fall of 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered immediately upon arrival.