Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, whose mother and grandmother were survivors of Auschwitz, was asked by S. Isaac Mekel, director of development at the American Society for Yad Vashem, to take an item from Yad Vashem onto the American Space Shuttle Columbia.
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Petr was born into the family of Otto Ginz, a manager of the export department of a textile company from Prague and notable Esperantist, and Marie Ginz (née Dolanská).
On board Columbia was a copy of a drawing by Petr Ginz, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Vedem, who depicted what he imagined the Earth looked like from the Moon when he was a 14-year-old prisoner in the Terezín concentration camp.
Petr Nečas | Petr Sgall | Petr Ruman | Petr Pravec | Petr Petrovich Sushkin | Petr Nedvěd | Petr Nárožný | Petr Ginz | Petr Bezruč | Petr Vorobiev | Petr Skrabanek | Petr Průcha | Petr Nedved | Petr Janda | Petr Ivanovich Panin | Petr Hrdlička | Petr Herel | Petr Drobisz | Petr Čech | Petr Brandl | Petr Beckmann |