Shimshon Eizik Ovitz

1868 – 1923

About

Shimshon Ovitz was the father of the Lilliput Troupe that became famous after a book called "In Our Hearts We Were Giants" was published. Born the third child to average sized parents the first dwarf in a town known as Rozavlea. He was the father of 10, seven dwarfs and three average sized children. He was known as a badchan, a merrymaker, after deciding not to continue a religious life. He was known throughout his country and further. Families would book him for their weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other celebrations months in advance. he was well known and paid very well. His first wife, an average sized woman named Brana died of tuberculosis in the winter of 1901 leaving him with 2 teenage dwarf daughters to raise. Being on the road so often on business he needed a new wife to help raise his children. He did not want a widow or a divorced woman with children since they would be preoccupied with their own family and not his. The matchmaker found him a woman just 2 years older than his