Smitten: 12 stories of enduring love - Suzy Zail, Melanie Faith Dove (photography) school never before-told account of the

never before-told account of the Ovitz family-seven of whose ten members were dwarfs bears witness to the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust

Reading them is like reliving an era long gone and

In this candid memoir

from the Terezín ghetto in Prague

how she stripped away the layers of antisemitic lies that made her recoil from her own birthright and unearthed the treasures of Jewish tradition

Smitten: 12 stories of enduring love - Suzy Zail, Melanie Faith Dove (photography) school never before-told account of the'Louise and John McLaughlin no longer share a bedroom. John sleeps alone, his face buried beneath an oxygen mask, his wooden body wrapped in a gingham blanket. Louise misses sharing a bed with her husband but she hasn't surrendered their intimacy. She can still stroke John's face and kiss his lips. It is an intimacy of sorts less sexual but far deeper than anything the couple experienced before John became a quadriplegic "When someone you love almost