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If I was a healthy Jewish girl, 1 meter 70 [a] tall, I would have been gassed like the hundreds of thousands of other Jews in my country. So if I ever wondered why I was born a dwarf, my answer would have to be that my handicap, my deformity, was God’s only way to keep me alive.
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.
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.
Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany.
Henderson was a man with dwarfism from Somerset, England, who was badly injured after being tossed by a rugby fan in a bar. Dinklage's words brought media and public attention to the act of dwarf-tossing, with Henderson's name being trended worldwide on social media. Henderson eventually died of his injuries in 2016, five years after the incident.
“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 ...
Zach and Tori Roloff’s 5-year-old son, Jackson, is just starting to realize he has dwarfism — but his parents are there to provide him with plenty of guidance (and jokes) along the way.
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]