num_pages: 352
description: Winner  Best of Los Angeles Award's Best Holocaust Book - 2021A must-read that hopefully will be adapted for the screen. Greene lets Wilzigs effervescent spirit shine through and his story will appeal to a wide variety of readers. - Library JournalUnstoppable 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.Siggis 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.
language: English
title: Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
publisher: Insight Editions