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| The Orvitz Troupe Preformed From 1939 To 1944 War broke out in 1939, but the troupe of traveling musicians (seven dwarfs and their two full-sized sisters) continued performing for the next four years, using documents that omitted the fact that they were Jews. |
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| In 1944 Hitler Unleashes The Panzers On Hungary They were on tour when in March 1944, when Hitler invaded Hungary. They returned immediately to their hometown. |  |
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| The Nazis Take A Liking To Them In 1944 the Jewish Dwarfs return to the town of Signet, where they see Nazi's clubbing Jews. Luckily the Germans were mesmerized by them, and help them on their train to home. |
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| Discovered To Be Jews, But Kept As Pets Nazis gave us a comfortable flat with a hidden back entrance, so that the German officers could sneak through. Every night we had to play, sing and entertain them. "Who could be merry at a time like this, knowing our people were being murdered?" she says. "But we had no choice. They brought crates of beer and liquor. They used to leave, staggeringly drunk, in the early hours of the morning, leaving us exhausted." |  |
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| One Brother Captured One brother, Leon, who was not a dwarf, was executed. Soon after his wife, and baby daughter, were gassed in Auschwitz. |
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| Shipped To Auschwitz On May 15, 1944, all the twelve members were taken by a horse and carriage to the train, and off to Auschwitz. They must have been valuable because they were behind the Russian front lines.
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| Mengele Is Ecstatic Over Dwarfs An intrigued Mengele greets the dwarf family among the milling crowds at the entrance ramp to Auschwitz. |
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| Accidentally Thrown In The Gas Chambers But in the chaos, they were dragged straight to the gas chamber. 'We were standing naked, men and women; when the heavy metal door slammed behind us and we started smelling the gas pouring in, Perla recalled. 'Suddenly, through the fog, we heard shouts. "The dwarfs! Where are the dwarfs?" 'Vomiting from the gas, they were freed. |  |
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| But there was more horror to come. Mengele wanted to decipher the secrets of human growth and he conducted his vile tests on them. Blood was taken from their veins, bone marrow drawn from their spine, hairs plucked, molars extracted, drops sprinkled into their eyes, hot and cold water pumped into their ears, needles inserted into various nerve centers, electrodes attached to their heads. Large quantities of various unknown liquids were injected into the wombs of those sisters who were married. |
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| Baby Samson Even though Mengele grew attached to one year-old 'Baby Samson', he still experimented on the child. |  |
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| Mengele Sang The Disney Song To Them She described how, chillingly, Mengele used to chant a little rhyme he made up for her family: 'Over the hills and seven mountains, there my seven dwarfs do dwell.' |
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| Had To Perform Nude For Special Guests Mengele brought them to a auditorium packed with hundreds of senior officers. He had them line in the middle of the stage, when suddenly Mengele shouted, "Take off your clothes!" They stood there, seven nude dwarfs, as the Nazis ogled at their little bodies. |  |
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| They Preformed For Hitler He even made a film of them which was sent to Hitler for his amusement at his mountain retreat. |
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| Mengele Boiled Two Dwarfs Alive The Ovitzes also witnessed two newcomer dwarfs being boiled to bones to be exhibited in a museum. |  |
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| | They Finally Moved To Haifa In 1955, sick through the experiments they endured, they performed for the last time. With the money they had gained they moved to a large flat and bought two cinemas and a cafe. |  |
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1 Comments:
Such atrocities were held in those camps, so many people killed just because some idiot thought that the Jews should die.
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