A Czech town wants to name a street after a Czech teen who died at Auschwitz. The street in Litomerice will honor Petr Ginz, the Czech teen who died at Auschwitz and whose drawing of the earth as viewed from the moon was taken into space by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon aboard the ill-fated Columbia space mission.
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