Fair Lawn, NJ Library – Book Talk

The author will appear in person and the program will also be broadcast via Zoom.

Author Joshua Greene will discuss his book, Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s astonishing journey from Auschwitz survivor and penniless immigrant to Wall Street legend. 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.

Rabbi Ronald S. Roth, Rabbi Emeritus – Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Cong. B’nai Israel will interview the author.

JOSHUA M. GREENE is a popular lecturer on Holocaust history and the spiritual quest, and a brilliant, entertaining communicator. A former instructor at Hofstra and Fordham Universities, Greene is recipient of numerous awards for his historical biographies and documentary films.

Rabbi Ronald Roth is the Rabbi Emeritus of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel, retiring from that congregation in 2018 and author of the book, The Jews of Pacov.