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Vision of Planet Earth from the Moon

- Franny Wentzel - Monday, February 1st, 2010 : goo

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was a Jewish Czech national deported to the TerezĂ­n concentration camp at age 14. At age 16 he was shipped to Auschwitz where he was exterminated.

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During his time he wrote several novels related to science fiction and in the camps published magazine.

A copy of a drawing by Ginz of the planet Earth as seen from the moon was taken by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon onto the American Space Shuttle Columbia. The shuttle, while reentering Earth's atmosphere, broke apart on February 1, 2003, destroying the copy of Ginz's drawing on what would have been his 75th birthday.

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Stained glass rendering of his sketch.

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Rich: 3rd Feb 2010 - 00:54 GMT

Thank you so much for the information attached to the pix, very interesting. The boys were exterminated, the drawing destoyed and the astronauts died, but the magazine still lives.

jack: 4th Feb 2010 - 18:52 GMT

my uncle liberated the camps in 1945. in 1962 i knew people in displaced camps in germany who had no families and were alone. as a soldier i was able to talk with some and heard some stories that you only see in movies like Shindler's list.

Samuel Press: 15th Feb 2010 - 16:14 GMT

The extraordinary young science visionary was murdered, not "exterminated," which was a Nazi eupehemism for genocide. It applies to vermin, not humans. The proper word is direct and correctly remembers that a crime was committed.
Still, my Litvish eyes have always loooked to the stars, so I am grateful to see this prescient view.

Franny Wentzel: 15th Feb 2010 - 17:22 GMT

With all due respect I think 'exterminate' better expresses the inumanity of the crime that took his life. Any fool can murder and many fools do but it takes a brutalitarian regime to exterminate.

Franny Wentzel: 1st Jul 2010 - 07:20 GMT

The title of the sketch was Vision of Planet Earth From the Moon, nimrod, which implies an observer standing on the moon and looking back at Earth, dillhole.

Try taking a course in reading comprehension before commenting on ''dem dar innertubes''.

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