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1073) Lya Graf. 1073: Lya Graf. Immortalized in a Photo in Which She is Sitting on JP Morgan’s Lap. Born: c.1901-1913, Germany. Died: 1941, Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Present-day Oswiecim, Poland) Original Name: Lia Schwartz. Lya was born with a form of dwarfism. She was twenty-seven inches tall and wanted no part of being in the photos ...
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At a break in the hearings, a Ringling Bros. press agent barged into the room, accompanied by a performer named Lya Graf, just 21 inches tall. “Gangway,” the agent shouted, “the smallest ...
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF FINANCE…Before being grilled by Senate counsel Ferdinand Pecora at a June 1, 1933 banking hearing, J.P. Morgan Jr was paid a surprise visit by Lya Graf, a Barnum & Bailey circus dwarf. At right, Pecora, circa 1933. Sadly, Graf, who was German, perished in a concentration camp after she returned to her homeland in 1935.
Lya Graf. In this famed, often reproduced 1933 image we have both pathos and true sadness. J.P. Morgan was taken aback when tiny Lya Graf with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus was put on his lap by circus press agent, Charles Leef during a break in hearings of a 1933 Senate Banking and Currency Committee. Morgan had been summoned to ...
May 29, 2015 · May 29, 2015. In 1933, in a bizarre scene captured by news photographers, Lya Graf, a female circus dwarf, sat in the lap of financier J.P. Morgan Jr. during a recess of a Senate...
Mar 31, 2017 · Lia Schwartz, a German-born and a person of short stature, performed as the midget Lya Graf in the famous US circus, Ringling and Barnum & Bailey. Graf became famous in June 1933 when, during a promotional campaign of the circus, she climbed on the lap of the Wall Street banker JP Morgan Jr. and had a chat with him.
June 1, 1933 (Thursday) Germany's Law for the Encouragement of Marriage took effect, providing for the Ehestandsdarlehen ( Marriage loan) to all German Aryan newlyweds, with 1000 Reichsmarks to be loaned, interest free, to couples on condition that the wife quit employment or remain unemployed. After encouraging women to vacate jobs in favor of ...
