Giants
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Giants

The Dwarfs of Auschwitz

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Giants

The Dwarfs of Auschwitz

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During the 1930s and 40s the Lilliput Troupe, a beloved and successful family of singers and actors, dazzled with their vaudeville programme and unique performances. The only all-dwarf show of the time, their small stature earned them fame - and, ironically, ultimately saved their lives. As Hitler's war descended, the Ovitz family - seven of whom were dwarfs - was plunged into the horrors of the darkest moments in modern history. Descending from the cattle train into the death camp of Auschwitz, they were separated from other Jewish victims on the orders of one Dr Joseph Mengele, the 'Angel of Death'. Obsessed with eugenics, Dr Mengele carried out a series of loathsome experiments on the family and developed a disturbing fondness for his human lab-rats, so much so that when the Russian army liberated Auschwitz, all members of the family - the youngest, a baby boy just eighteen months old; the oldest, a 58-year-old woman - were still alive. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with Perla Ovitz, the troupe's last-surviving member, and scores of Auschwitz survivors, authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev deftly describe the moving and inspirational story of this remarkable family and their indomitable will to survive.

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Publisher
The Robson Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781849545549
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia del Holocausto

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. CONTENTS
  4. Family Tree
  5. FOREWORD BY WARWICK DAVIS
  6. PROLOGUE
  7. ONE: TRANSYLVANIA, 1866
  8. TWO: ROZAVLEA, 1923
  9. THREE: ROZAVLEA, 1930
  10. FOUR: ON THE ROAD, 1931-1940
  11. FIVE: HUNGARY, 1940
  12. SIX: MARAMUREŞ, EASTER 1944
  13. SEVEN: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, MAY 1944
  14. EIGHT: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, JUNE 1944
  15. NINE: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, JULY 1994
  16. TEN: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, AUGUST 1944
  17. ELEVEN: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, SEPTEMBER 1944
  18. TWELVE: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, OCTOBER 1944
  19. THIRTEEN: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, NOVEMBER 1944
  20. FOURTEEN: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, DECEMBER 1944
  21. FIFTEEN: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, JANUARY 1945
  22. SIXTEEN: ON THE ROAD, 1945
  23. SEVENTEEN: SIGHET–ANTWERP, 1945–1949
  24. EIGHTEEN: HAIFA, 1949–1954
  25. NINETEEN: HAIFA, 1955–1979
  26. TWENTY: HAIFA, 1980–1992
  27. TWENTY-ONE: HAIFA, 1993–2001
  28. EPILOGUE: ROZAVLEA–AUSCHWITZ, SEPTEMBER 2000
  29. SOURCES
  30. Plates
  31. Copyright
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