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by Joshua M. Greene

Here is a new model of American hero: Siggi B. Wilzig, an uneducated, penniless refugee who rose from the inferno of Auschwitz to the heights of oil and banking. "Siggi's War" explores the extraordinary life and career of Siggi B. Wilzig, a man who arrived in New York penniless at age twenty-one after surviving four years in forced labor and concentration camps during the Holocaust, and who eventually became one of the most successful businessmen in postwar America. Wilzig was less than five and a half feet tall, but his personality was enormous. With sheer bravado and bluster, he rose to the heights of the oil and commercial banking industries, which were virulently anti-Semitic in the 1950s and 60s. With survival skills honed in Auschwitz and Mauthausen, Wilzig transformed nightmares of torture and starvation into the drive and cunning needed to build an empire from scratch. From his humble origins in a small West Prussian village, Wilzig went on to become a maker of political careers, an advisor to US presidents, a co-founder the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and a leading voice for the cause of Holocaust remembrance. Part survival story, part historical document, and part memorial, "Siggi s War" is the tale of a man who faced down incredible odds twice and won."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608878538
• ISBN13: 9781608878536
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Insight Editions
• Length: 368 Pages