Ovitz family

The Ovitz family was a unique and resilient family of Hungarian Jewish actors and traveling musicians, originally from present-day Romania. What set them apart was that most of the family members were dwarfs, making them the largest recorded family of dwarfs. This remarkable family was composed of twelve individuals, spanning a wide age range from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman.

The Ovitz family's most notable experience was their survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Despite the incredibly challenging circumstances, the entire family managed to survive their imprisonment intact, a testament to their strength and resilience. This extraordinary feat makes them the largest family to enter Auschwitz and survive as a unit. Their story is a remarkable one, marked by their ability to endure and overcome even the most difficult of circumstances.