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In this remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves, readers bear witness to the best and worst of humanity and to the terrible irony of the Ovitz's fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped them endure the Holocaust. Israeli authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev 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. Descending into the hell of the concentration camp from the transport train, the Ovitz familyknown widely as the Lilliput Troupewas separated from other Jewish victims. Dr. Josef Mengele was notified of their arrival and they were assigned better quarters and provided more nutritious food than other inmates. The authors chronicle Mengele's experiments upon the Ovitz's, and the creepy fondness he developed for these small people, even the songs he composed and sang to this family of singers, dancers, and klezmorim. Finally liberated by Russian troops, the family returned to their deserted village in Transylvania, and eventually found their way to a new home in Israel. They resumed their careers, overcame
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- Author
- Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf; Da Capo Press; Brand: Carroll n Graf
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781322352343
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Medical, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (420 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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