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 eldest daughter to marry her name was Batia-Bertha Husz. She married Shimshon and they had 8 children together. When their youngest child Pearla aka Piroska, was just 18 months old Shimshon was at a wedding entertaining ate some poisonous fish and died a week later.
His is one of the few stones that still exists in this abandoned cemetery. It reads,
"Here lies an honest, virtuous, learned man, a charitable benefactor of the poor, all of whose deeds were for the honor of G-d." His entire family survived Auschwitz after Dr. Mengele found them and used many of them in his experiments and made the promise to them that as long as he was around no harm would come to them. The youngest child Pearla is said to have cried when she heard of his passing.