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In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe: A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust (Hardcover)

by Yehuda Koren (Author), Eilat Negev (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers (Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786713658
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786713653
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A triumph of the will, 26 Jul 2004
This book should truly be written on the surface of diamond, to be read until the ending of mankind. Like Martin Gilbert?s The Holocaust, In Our Hearts We Were Giants is an immaculately researched history, a testament to human courage in the face of unimaginable horror. The hitherto un-recorded story of the Ovitz family from Romania, seven of them of restricted growth, who performed as The Lilliput Troupe, details their arrest and transportation to Auschwitz where they were selected by Josef Mengele for his pseudo-scientific research into dwarfism. The authors, in diligently extracting minute details of his inhumanity (the Devil is in the detail!), bring this monster - and his peers and successors - to judgement.

One of the most powerful sequences occurs towards the end, when the authors make the journey that the Ovitz family would have endured from north west Romania to Auschwitz. There, in this now seemingly ?commercialised? death camp, they find a single button in the dust. Throughout the book Koren and Negev continually astonish with fragments that impact the reality of the Final Solution. Like many pages in this shocking book it?s almost impossible to read through tears, The moral of every page is a test of one?s own morality and courage.

The horror of what happened becomes tangible when the focus is upon individuals - somehow the massacre of millions is impossible to comprehend. If their sacrifice has any value then it is contained in books like this, as the same genocidal forces are still at work around the world. It is as profound a memorial as that at Yad Vashem, and at the end all one can say is Kaddish.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a poignant and uplifting story of survival, 7 Jul 2004
As an avid reader of many Holocaust stories, I was very moved by the remarkable, true story written by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, Israeli authors who interviewed the last surviving dwarf of the Lilliput Troupe.
This Orthodox family which consisted of ten children, seven of whom were dwarfs, all survived the horrors of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and the experiments by Joseph Mengele. Unlike other stories of Holocaust survivors which describe horrific conditions of death, starvation, and torture, this story is unique in that the reader can identify with the emotions and
vicissitudes of the dwarfs and sympathize with their situation. It is a poignant and uplifting story of survival and compassion for the little people of the world who have made an important contribution to world history, unique in the Orthodox world.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Lilliput Dwarfs, 20 Jul 2005
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A brilliant read, and amazing that the whole family stayed together during the concentration camps experience. Once I started reading I could not put it down. It is such a harrowing, very moving story, yet awful at the same time. The experiments they endured at Dr Mengle's hands was terrible. If you want a insight into the crazy world of Auschwitz minds then this book is a must.
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