In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe--A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786713658 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Photographs are included.. Through research and interviews with the youngest Ovitz daughter, Perla, the troupe’s last surviving member, and other relatives, the authors weave the tale of a beloved and successful family of performers who were famous entertainers in Central Europe until the Nazis deported them to Auschwitz in May 1944. When Josef Mengele was notified of their arrival, they were assigned better quarters and provided more nutritious food than other inmates. In this remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members wer
"A well written, very sobering account" according to Deborah Brodeur. Well written account of people with more courage than I could ever hope for. It takes you just far enough into the evil and sadistic minds of Mengele and his comrads to the point you want to scream, and reminds you, these victims of their experiments w. The Seven Dwarfs The story of the Ovitz family's devotion to one other and to their religion is by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. By now, many of us have read books, seen movies, and heard stories about extraordinary survival won through that extraordinary horro. An unforgettable perspective on the nightmare of the Holocaust Penned by a pair of Israeli journalists, In Our Hearts We Were Giants is the never-before-told true story of the Ovitz family, seven of them dwarfs, who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust - yet in an odd twist of fate, their dwarfism actually hel
All rights reserved. Twenty-four years later, his seven dwarf children, two of their normal-sized siblings and a handful of their spouses and cousins set a more tragic record as one of only two extended families to survive Auschwitz intact. 16 pages of photos not seen by PW. . From Publishers Weekly When the last of his 10 children was born in 1921, Shimshon Eizik Ovitz had the distinction of having fathered the largest dwarf family in the world. Their stories, and those of their family, are unique