<DIV>Not since Anne Frank&#8217;s <I>The Diary of a Young Girl </I>has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precarious texture of daily life.&nbsp; His stunningly mature paintings, drawings, and writings reflect his insatiable appetite for learning and experience and openly display his growing artistic and literary genius. Petr was killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. His diaries&#8212;recently discovered in a Prague attic under extraordinary circumstances&#8212;are an invaluable historical document and&nbsp;a testament to&nbsp;one remarkable child&#8217;s insuppressible hunger for life.</DIV>