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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.
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]
They have two surviving children; their first child died in infancy. [48] Their daughter is actress Annabelle Davis. [49] Unlike most people with dwarfism who have a condition called achondroplasia (70.65%), Davis' dwarfism is caused by an extremely rare genetic condition called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED).
“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 ...
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.
Montzingo is the third child of Darrel and Vicki Montzingo. "Everyone but Peter, who they aren't sure about yet, is a dwarf," The Seattle Times said in a January 1991 profile of the family.