Giants : the dwarfs of Auschwitz : the extraordinary story of the Lilliput Troupe

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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 terrible irony of the Ovitz's fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped them to endure the Holocaust.

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Human experimentation in medicine Poland Oświęcim

Jews Romania Transylvania Biography

Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979

Ovitz family

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ISBN:

9781849544641
1849544646

Edition:

Revised edition

Description:

xv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Im Herzen waren wir Riesen. English

Notes:

"First published in Germany by Econ Verlag in 2003"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283)
Translation of: Im Herzen waren wir Riesen

Contents:

Family Tree
Foreword by Warwick Davis
Prologue
One: Transylvania, 1866
Two: Rozavlea, 1923
Three: Rozavlea, 1930
Four: On the Road, 1931-1940
Five: Hungary, 1940
Six: Maramures, Easter 1944
Seven: Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944
Eight: Auschwitz-Birkenau, June 1944
Nine: Auschwitz-Birkenau, July 1944
Ten: Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944
Eleven: Auschwitz-Birkenau, September 1944
Twelve: Auschwitz-Birkenau, October 1944
Thirteen: Auschwitz-Birkenau, November 1944
Fourteen: Auschwitz-Birkenau, December 1944
Fifteen: Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 1945
Sixteen: On the Road, 1945
Seventeen: Sighet-Antwerp, 1945-1949
Eighteen: Haifa, 1949-1954
Nineteen: Haifa, 1955-1979
Twenty: Haifa, 1980-1993
Twenty-One: Haifa, 1993-2001
Epilogue: Rozavlea-Auschwitz, September 2000
Sources

LCCN:

2013376357

Control Number:

1871956

Other Authors:

Negev, Eilat

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