Ovitz family

The Ovitz family were a Romanian family of artistes, who survived the "experiments" Joseph Mengele at Auschwitz concentration camp.

History

The diminutive Rabbi Shimshon Isaac Ovitz (1868-1923) became the father with his two wives Brana (d. 1901) and Batia - Bertha ten children, seven of whom were affected by Pseudoachondroplasia: Rozika, Francesca, Frieda, Elizabeth, Perla, Miki and Avraham. The daughters Leah and sera Sara and son Arie, however, reached normal body measurements. The diminutive siblings formed in the 1930s, the " Lilliput Troupe " and kicked with music, theater and dance performances in numerous countries of Eastern and Central Europe.

In March 1944, the Jewish family Ovitz, who was staying at that time in Hungary and their origin had long been veiled, passed. After she initially had apparently once again in her hometown Sighet can travel, the siblings were deported to Auschwitz, where they arrived on 19 May 1944. Mengele singled out on the ramp and kept back the whole family, even the tall members and a number of people, claiming to be relatives of the Ovitz family, for his experiments. This was this indeed saved from starvation or the gasification but cruelly mistreated. Mengele also filmed a movie about the two sisters, who does not seem to be maintained. Maybe Mengele took him in his escape from Auschwitz on 17 January 1945.

On 27 January 1945 the family Ovitz witnessed the liberation of the camp. In August, the sisters returned to Rozavlea where they had had their home prior to their arrest. The siblings found her parents' home in Sighet before plundered. Later she lived for two years in Antwerp, eventually they migrated in 1949 to Israel, where she continued her stage career, including a piece called " Dance of Death ".

From 1955, operated the siblings two cinemas in Haifa. The youngest of the sisters, Perla Ovitz, died as the last member of the former " Lilliput Troupe " in 2001.

Book and Film

The Israeli journalist Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev wrote about the family's a book that has been translated into numerous languages ​​, however "like a penny booklet reads" according to the judgment of a critic. About Perla Ovitz 'Search for the rotated movie in a concentration camp in the aftermath of the war, the Israeli director Shahar Rosen turned later a movie titled "Love Perla ".

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