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Alexander Katan was born in Rotterdam, one of eight children in a Jewish family. He had spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare disorder of bone growth that results in dwarfism. [1] He used a wheelchair. As an adult, he moved to Leeuwarden and married Julia Sophie Elze. She was also a dwarf. They had one son, Alphons, born in 1930.
The Ovitz family was a family of Hungarian Jewish actors/traveling musicians originating from present Romania, who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Most of them were dwarfs . [ 1 ]
Beals specialized in doing the voices of young boys, although he was also hired to voice young female children. [52] 1927–2012 Canada: 137 cm (54 in) Rick Howland: Unknown United States: 129.54 cm (51.00 in) Sofiya Cheyenne: Sofiya is an actress and active disability advocate in the arts. She has SEDc type dwarfism.
Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family in June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz. Fritz Duschinsky [8] February 26, 1907: December 1, 1942: 35 Jewish Czechoslovak physicist
“Little People, Big World” star Zach Roloff and his three children, Jackson, 6, Lilah, 4, and Josiah, 23 months, all have dwarfism. While Zach has been living with the genetic condition for 33 ...
Lewkowicz later recounted that Goeth would kill people for looking him in the eye or for walking too slowly. [3] Lewkowicz would ultimately spend time in six different concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Mauthausen. [2] He was the sole survivor of his family during the Holocaust. [4]
Edgar Degas, French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings; Eugène Delacroix, was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school; Narcisse-Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, was a French painter of the Barbizon school; Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer
Rappaport was born to Jewish taxi driver Mark and his wife Diana, née Schneiderman in London. He was born with achondroplasia, [citation needed] a common form of dwarfism.As a child, he developed talents in playing the accordion and drums, the latter of which he played professionally during his life. [2]