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Title 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.
Publisher San Rafael, California : Insight Editions, 2021.
Copyright ©2020
Description xvii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 LW-Upper East Side  B WILZIG Nearby on shelf  30641006326438 08-24-23  AVAILABLE
Note "The unbelievable true story"--Cover.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-315).
Summary "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"-- Amazon.
Subject Wilzig, Siggi B., 1926-2003.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Jewish men -- Biography.
Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Biographies.
Add'l Names Lipstadt, Deborah E., writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781647222154
164722215X