Anões em Auschwitz

    "It is the story of the Ovitz family of Transylvania in Romania, consisting of ten siblings, seven of whom were dwarfs, five women and two men; three siblings were of normal height; one of the latter died in a labor camp.

    The Ovitz family formed an entertainment troupe called the Lilliput Troupe that toured mostly Eastern Europe but maintained their headquarters in the village of Rozavlea in Transylvania where 20% of the population were Jews. The Ovitzes were orthodox Jews. 

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    In the 1930s they started their Lilliput Troupe, singing, dancing, play ing instruments, and producing theatrical skits. They were very popular and successful, performing not only in Romania but also in the neighbor ing countries, traveling in their own bus. 

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    In 1944 Nazi German troops occupied Hungary and within it Transylvania. Jewish men were forced into labor camps, Jews had to wear yellow stars and in the spring deportation started. First forced into ghettos, then the dwarfs were shipped to Auschwitz."

Laska, Vera, review of In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe - a Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust por Y. Koren & E. Negev, International Journal on World Peace, vol. 21, no. 4, Professors World Peace Academy, 2004, pp. 87–89. daqui

"Group portrait of the Ovici family, a family of Jewish dwarf entertainers known as the Lilliput Troupe, who survived Auschwitz.

Pictured are Perla, Rozika, Abraham, Frieda, Micki, Francesca and Elizabeth Ovici."

ca. 1950 - 1954

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