----------------------- Message requiring your approval ---------------------- From: "Negev-Koren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ha-Safran]: a new book
We are the authors of In Our Hearts We Were Giants, the remarkable story of the Lilliput Troupe, a dwarf family's survival of the Holocaust. It got excellent reviews in Forward, Jewish Week, Jerusalem Post, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Review, Booklist and others.
We'll be grateful if you could pass on the information to members of AJL.
Yours sincerely,
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
In Our Hearts We Were Giants
The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe�A Dwarf Family�s Survival of the Holocaust
by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
The moving and inspirational story of survival by the Ovitz family, whose dwarf members lived a dark fairy tale
�An often-wrenching and at times almost unbelievable account of a family of Jewish dwarfs from Transylvania�a family who struggled in life and cheated death, amazingly.� �Jon Kalish, Forward
In the 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. Throughout IN OUR HEARTS WE WERE GIANTS (Carroll & Graf, June 2004, ISBN: ISBN:0-7867-1365-8, $25) authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev weave the tale of a beloved performing troupe who were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, descending into the hell of the concentration camp. 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 musicians. 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.
About the authors
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev write for the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth. In addition to their interviews with Perla Ovitz, her nephew and her cousin, they tracked down significant medical documentation and archival lists, and unearthed original records from Auschwitz.
IN OUR HEARTS WE WERE GIANTS
The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe�A Dwarf Family�s Survival of the Holocaust
by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
ISBN:0-7867-1365-8/Trade Cloth/$25.00
Published by Carroll & Graf, distributed by Publishers Group West
To order books, contact: Publishers Group West 1700 Fourth Street Berkeley, CA 95710 Phone 800-788-3123 / Fax 510-528-3444
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