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Don't Have Your Eyes
By
Carrie
Kitze
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Family connections are vitally important
to children as they begin to find their place in the world. For transracial
and transcultural adoptees, domestic adoptees, and for children in
foster care or kinship placements, celebrating the differences within
their families as well as the similarities that connect them, is the
foundation for belonging. As parents or caregivers, we can strengthen
our children's tie to family and embrace the differences that
make them unique. Each child will have their own story and their own
special place to belong.
This beautifully illustrated and uplifting book, for the 1-5 set,
will help to create the intimate parent/caregiver and child bond that
is so important. While others may notice the physical differences
between us on the outside, inside we are the same.
Gail Steinberg from PACT an Adoption Alliance has created a guide
for families touched by transracial and transcultural adoption. It
and other parent guides are available on the EMK Press website in
the guides/resources section.
Author Bio – Carrie Kitze
Carrie Kitze is an adoptive mom, writer, marketing consultant and
speaker at adoption conferences and events . She is the author of
tow children's books, We See the Moon, a gentle book to help
children emotionally connect to their birthparents and I Don't
Have Your Eyes, an uplifting book that helps to create intimate bonds
between parent and child. An advocate for adoptive parents and children,
as well as a fundraiser to help children worldwide, she believes that
each child deserves their own special place to belong. She lives in
New Jersey with her husband, Rob, and their two daughters.
Illustrator Bio – Rob Williams
Rob Williams started his career as a fashion illustrator nearly 30
years ago. Since then, he has served a wide range of national and
international clients as an illustrator, art director and award winning
graphic designer. He has illustrated a series of children's
books for continental Press including ìMole and Vole go Fishingî
and a ìTune for Juneî. Rob lives in Pennsylvania with
his wife, Eileen, and their youngest daughter, Emily, from China.
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In
Our Hearts We Were Giants
The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe
A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust
By
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Published
by Carroll & Graf
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The
moving and inspirational story of survival by the Ovitz family whose
dwarf members lived a dark fairy tale and thrived despite their dwarfism,
Auschwitz, and Joseph Mengele.
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 Ovitz's fate:
being burdened with dwarfism helped them endure the Holocaust. Throughout
IN OUR HEARTS WE WERE GIANTS authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev weave
the tale of a beloved and successful family of performers who were famous
entertainers in Central Europe until the Nazis deported them to Auschwitz
in May 1944. Descending into the hell of the concentration camp from
the transport train, the Ovitz family – known widely as the Lilliput
Troupe – was separated from other Jewish victims. Dr. Josef Mengele
was notified of their arrival and they were assigned better quarters
and provided more nutritious food than other inmates. The authors chronicle
Mengele's experiments upon the Ovitz's, and the creepy fondness he developed
for these small people, even the songs he composed and sang to this
family of singers, dancers, and musicians. Finally liberated by Russian
troops, the family returned to their deserted village in Transylvania,
and eventually found their way to a new home in Israel. They resumed
their careers, overcame their handicaps and became wealthy and successful
performers.
About the authors
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev are journalists for the major Israeli daily
newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, and contribute to major British periodicals.
In addition to their interviews with Perla Ovitz, her nephew and her
cousin, they tracked down significant medical documentation and archival
lists, and unearthed original records from Auschwitz. The authors are
touring New York, Miami, Boston, and Washington, DC.
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