The actual story of Petr Ginz is much better than his diaries. His diaries were written in the two years before he was sent to Terezin concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. Petr was a highly intelligent boy and it really makes you ponder how many people were murdered by the Nazis that may have gone on to do wonderful things for our world? Petr seemed to take the deportations calmy, or so his journal entries would have you believe. But he did stop writing in his diary a month or two before being deported, so it must have been much more stressful than he would lead a reader to believe. His sister, who survived Terezin, fills in many of the holes left in Petr's diary. He was also quite a good artist for someone so young and many pieces of his art survived the war. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the Holocaust but it is not the usual gritty Holocaust survivor tale.

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