WRITER

Petr Ginz

1928 - 1944

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Petr Ginz (1 February 1928 – 28 September 1944) was a Czechoslovak boy of partial Jewish background who was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto (known as Terezín, in Czech) during the Holocaust. He was murdered at the age of sixteen when he was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp and gassed to death upon arrival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petr Ginz has received more than 134,666 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Petr Ginz is the 1,868th most popular writer (down from 1,543rd in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 191st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Czech Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Prager Tagebuch 1941-1942
2007
The diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942
Diaries, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
2007
Derekh Ṭerezainshṭaṭ =
1984

Page views of Petr Ginzs by language

Over the past year Petr Ginz has had the most page views in the with 15,779 views, followed by Czech (6,707), and Spanish (4,909). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (86.75%), Egyptian Arabic (57.89%), and Russian (39.25%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Petr Ginz ranks 1,868 out of 7,302. Before him are Stanisław Przybyszewski, Benjamin Péret, Eva Schloss, Paul Goodman, Ion Creangă, and Mohammed Dib. After him are Mikhail Zoshchenko, João de Barros, Sergei Dovlatov, Paulinus II of Aquileia, James Ellroy, and Abbot Oliba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Petr Ginz ranks 145. Before him are Einojuhani Rautavaara, Vidal Sassoon, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Henry Silva, Otto F. Kernberg, and Anne Sexton. After him are Shulamit Aloni, Veljko Bulajić, Ernest Simoni, Robert Brout, Nicolas Hayek, and Joss Ackland. Among people deceased in 1944, Petr Ginz ranks 104. Before him are Artur Phleps, Kurt Gerron, Nikolai Polikarpov, Ulrich von Hassell, Andrey Sheptytsky, and Ethel Smyth. After him are Emanuel Ringelblum, Józef Beck, Walter Heitz, André Abegglen, Rudolf Schmundt, and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Petr Ginz ranks 237 out of 1,200. Before him are Erwin Schulhoff (1894), Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (1031), Josef Abrhám (1939), Elizabeth of Görlitz (1390), Viliam Schrojf (1931), and Luboš Kohoutek (1935). After him are Rudolf Serkin (1903), Emil Orlík (1870), Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751), Karel Brückner (1939), Anne of Bavaria (1329), and Josef Lada (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Petr Ginz ranks 26. Before him are Ivan Klíma (1931), Egon Kisch (1885), Otfried Preußler (1923), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830), Princess Michael of Kent (1945), and Martin of Opava (1300). After him are Josef Lada (1887), Pavel Kohout (1928), Alois Jirásek (1851), Karel Hynek Mácha (1810), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), and Alois Musil (1868).

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