http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4190701.stm
Stamp honours Jewish 'moon boy'
By Rob Cameron
BBC News, Prague
A new postage stamp featuring a drawing by a Jewish boy who was
murdered at Auschwitz is to be unveiled in Prague on Thursday.
The drawing, by Prague schoolboy Petr Ginz, depicts a view of the
Earth as imagined from the Moon.
As a boy, he was obsessed with science and space travel, and drew his
now famous Moon Landscape aged 14.
The black-and-white pencil drawing shows mountains on the Moon with
the Earth shining far away in the distance.
The drawing dates from 1942, when Petr was imprisoned in the
Theresienstadt ghetto.
Two years later, Petr was sent to Auschwitz and killed. The drawing,
now immortalised on a postage stamp, betrays the boy's dreams of
escaping the ghetto walls that confined him.
But there is an extra poignancy to this story. Two years ago, Israel's
first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, took the drawing on board the ill-fated
Columbia space shuttle.
Ramon, whose mother survived Auschwitz, was killed when the shuttle
exploded on returning to Earth.
The postage stamp is a tribute both to a schoolboy who dreamed of
travelling through space and an astronaut whose own dreams ended in
tragedy.
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Published: 2005/01/20 10:08:43 GMT
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