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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.
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Sadly, Graf, who was German, perished in a concentration camp after she returned to her homeland in 1935. She was condemned to death in 1937 for being half Jewish and “abnormal.” ( New York Magazine /Wikipedia)
Lya Graf. In this famed, often reproduced 1933 image we have both pathos and true sadness.
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 hearing on the stock market...
J. P. Morgan Jr. was testifying before the Senate Banking Committee when a man placed a circus midget, Lya Graf, onto his lap. The U.S. Senate warned that any newspapers that printed the photo risked being excluded from future Senate hearings.
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.
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 hearing on the stock market crash of 1929.
