Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.
Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man.
Elie Wiesel’s Night.
Art Spiegelman’s Maus.
Works of Holocaust survivor autobiography and biography have long been a key component in the fight to ensure proper Shoah education.
New to that list is Unstoppable, the story of Siggi Wilzig, a survivor of Auschwitz who went on to become a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist in America.
About Wilzig
Siggi Wilzig was born in what is now Poland in 1926. During the Holocaust, he was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. Though he was horrifically abused and dozens of members of his family were murdered, Wilzig survived and emigrated to America, working his way up from penniless immigrant to billionaire philanthropist, donating millions to causes dedicated to Holocaust remembrance.
About the Book
Unstoppable takes you through each step of Wilzig’s incredible story of survival against the odds. It also strives to tear away the curtain of ignorance and explain the horrors of the Holocaust to a new generation – one which, surveys have shown, are disturbingly ignorant of its truth and scope.
As with any Holocaust survivor autobiography or biography, it is naturally an enormous undertaking, and author Joshua M. Greene is more than up to the task. An acclaimed scholar and expert on the Holocaust, Greene has written works on the subject such as Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor and has given speeches about it at the Pentagon.
With Antisemitic attacks on Jews on the rise, testifying to Antisemitic roots of and truth of the Holocaust via stories such as Wilzig’s is as important as ever.
