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Unstoppable : Siggi B. Wilzig's astonishing journey from Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to Wall Street legend / Joshua M. Greene ; foreword by Deborah E. Lipstadt.

by Yogeśvara Dāsa, 1950-

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Insight Editions, 2021.

940.5318092 W756y

Wilzig, Siggi B., 1926-2003.

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Holocaust survivors -- Biography.

Jewish men -- Biography

Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.

Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.

9781647222154 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Siggi B Wilzig's astonishing journey from Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to Wall Street legend

xvii, 315 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297).

"Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near starvation, he was liberated from camp Mauthausen and went to work for the US Army hunting Nazis, a service that earned him a visa to America. On arrival, he made three vows: to never go hungry again, to support the Jewish people, and to speak out against injustice. He earned his first dollar shoveling snow after a fierce blizzard. His next job was laboring in toxic sweatshops. From these humble beginnings, he became President, Chairman and CEO of a New York Stock Exchange-listed oil company and grew a full-service commercial bank to more than $4 billion in assets"

Lipstadt, Deborah E.

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