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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: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Rafael, California : Insight Editions, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: xvii, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781647222154
  • 164722215X
Other title:
  • Siggi B. Wilzig's astonishing journey from Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to Wall Street legend
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Contents:
Vows -- Chopped Jew meat -- Auschwitz -- Liberation -- Neckties and love lights -- Forced to elope -- "Make the damn deal" -- Siggi and Goliath -- The cash chow -- The bank with heart -- "I'm still in Auschwitz" -- West Point -- The super-salesman -- What an athlete! -- Cookin' with gas -- Government schmucks -- A reckoning at midnight -- Strike -- "Millions at stake!" -- The Holocaust Museum -- Unbecoming conduct -- The never-ending war -- Defying orders -- Tough love -- To bear witness -- Impossible dreams -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
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.com.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography WILZIG, S. G811 Available 33111010510382
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297).

Vows -- Chopped Jew meat -- Auschwitz -- Liberation -- Neckties and love lights -- Forced to elope -- "Make the damn deal" -- Siggi and Goliath -- The cash chow -- The bank with heart -- "I'm still in Auschwitz" -- West Point -- The super-salesman -- What an athlete! -- Cookin' with gas -- Government schmucks -- A reckoning at midnight -- Strike -- "Millions at stake!" -- The Holocaust Museum -- Unbecoming conduct -- The never-ending war -- Defying orders -- Tough love -- To bear witness -- Impossible dreams -- Epilogue -- Postscript.

"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.com.

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