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Unstoppable
Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
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eBook - ePub
Unstoppable
Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
About this book
Winner – Best of Los Angeles Award's "Best Holocaust Book - 2021"
“A must-read that hopefully will be adapted for the screen. Greene lets Wilzig’s effervescent spirit shine through, and his story will appeal to a wide variety of readers.” - Library Journal
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.
Siggi’s ascent from the darkest of yesterdays to the brightest of tomorrows holds sway over the imagination in this riveting narrative of grit, cunning, luck, and the determination to live life to the fullest.
“A must-read that hopefully will be adapted for the screen. Greene lets Wilzig’s effervescent spirit shine through, and his story will appeal to a wide variety of readers.” - Library Journal
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.
Siggi’s ascent from the darkest of yesterdays to the brightest of tomorrows holds sway over the imagination in this riveting narrative of grit, cunning, luck, and the determination to live life to the fullest.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Vows
- Chapter 2: Chopped Jew Meat
- Chapter 3: Auschwitz
- Chapter 4: Liberation
- Chapter 5: Neckties and Love Lights
- Chapter 6: Forced to Elope
- Chapter 7: âMake the Damn Dealâ
- Chapter 8: Siggi and Goliath
- Chapter 9: The Cash Cow
- Chapter 10: The Bank with Heart
- Chapter 11: âIâm Still in Auschwitzâ
- Chapter 12: West Point
- Chapter 13: The Super-Salesman
- Chapter 14: What an Athlete!
- Chapter 15: Cookinâ with Gas
- Chapter 16: Government âSchmucksâ
- Chapter 17: A Reckoning at Midnight
- Chapter 18: Strike
- Chapter 19: âMillions at Stake!â
- Chapter 20: The Holocaust Museum
- Chapter 21: Unbecoming Conduct
- Chapter 22: The Never-Ending War
- Chapter 23: Defying Orders
- Chapter 24: Tough Love
- Chapter 25: To Bear Witness
- Chapter 26: Impossible Dreams
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- The Blue Cardâs Siggi B. Wilzig Fighting Cancer Together Program
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Copyright