Stamp honours Jewish 'moon boy' - Democratic Underground

emad

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Thu Jan-20-05 09:32 AM
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Stamp honours Jewish 'moon boy'

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By Rob Cameron
BBC News, Prague

The moonscape was destroyed in the shuttle disaster (Picture: Yad Vashem)

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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4190701.stm

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Thu Jan-20-05 10:23 AM
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1. That's really neat!

Humans are such a conundrum.

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Thu Jan-20-05 11:28 AM
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2. that is lovely.

very cool.
what great way to remember him.

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