Petr Ginz

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Earth as seen by the moon, drawn by Petr Ginz and taken onto the Space Shuttle Columbia

Petr Ginz (1928–1944) was a young Jewish boy who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp, during the Holocaust. At age fifteen, Ginz was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died of typhus.

Ginz was a very talented boy. At age fourteen, he became the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine Vedem, written, edited, and illustrated entirely by young boys at Terezín. He also wrote an Esperanto-Czech dictionary.

A drawing by Ginz of the planet Earth as seen from the moon was taken by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon onto the Space Shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated upon its reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. The asteroid 50413 Petrginz was named in his honour.

Ginz's diary has only recently been discovered and published.