Phan Thi Kim Phuc. Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.
The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese attack. "Vietnam Napalm"[edit] Kim Phuc and her family were residents of the village of Trang Bang, South Vietnam. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes dropped a napalm bomb on Trang Bang, which had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. Kim Phuc joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers who were fleeing from the Caodai Temple to the safety of South Vietnamese–held positions. Thumbnails of the film footage showing the events just before and after the iconic photograph was taken. Audio tapes of President Richard Nixon, in conversation with his chief of staff, H. Adult life[edit] See also[edit] General Tom Thumb. General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), a little person who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T.
Barnum. Early life[edit] Stratton circa 1848 Stratton was a son of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, carpenter named Sherwood Edward Stratton. Sherwood was the son of Seth Sherwood Stratton and Amy Sharpe. Born in Bridgeport to parents who were of medium height, Charles was a relatively large baby, weighing 9 pounds 8 ounces (4.3 kg) at birth.[1] He developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life, at which point he was 25 inches (64 cm) tall and weighed 15 pounds (6.8 kg). By late 1842, Stratton had not grown an inch in height or put on a pound in weight from when he was six months old.
Under Barnum[edit] Circa 1861 P.T. A year later, Barnum took young Stratton on a tour of Europe making him an international celebrity.[3] Stratton appeared twice before Queen Victoria. Marriage and later life[edit] Death[edit] Ovitz family. The Ovitz siblings The Ovitz family were a family of Jewish actors/traveling musicians who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Most of them were dwarfs.[1] They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family (twelve family members from a 15-month-old baby to a 58-year-old woman) to enter Auschwitz and to survive intact.[2] Origin[edit] The Ovitz family originated from Maramureş County, Romania. They were descended from Shimson Eizik Ovitz (1868–1923), a badchan entertainer, itinerant rabbi and himself a dwarf.[2] He fathered ten children in total, seven of them dwarfs (afflicted with pseudoachondroplasia),[3] from two marriages. The children from his first marriage to Brana Fruchter (she was of average height), Rozika (1886–1984) and Franzika (1889–1980), were both dwarfs. Batia gave her family one piece of advice that would stay with them for the rest of their lives, and that ultimately saved their lives.