In Our Hearts We Were Giants

“Mesmerizing . . . no reader will fail to admire the Ovitzes,” a family of Jewish performers whose dwarfism helped them survive Auschwitz ( Kirkus Reviews ). In this 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 Ovitzes’ fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped them endure the Holocaust. Israeli authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev weave the tale of a bel