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Siggi Wilzig
Siegbert (Siggi) B. Wilzig (March 11, 1926 – January 7, 2003) was a survivor of the Holocaust, oil tycoon, commercial banker and advisor to Nobel Prize winner writer Elie Wiesel. He triumphed over the worst possible conditions, and became a self-made multi-millionaire.
==Early life==
Siggi Wilzig was born in 1926 in Krojanke, West Prussia (currently Krajenka, Poland). The Wilzigs were an old German family with heritage dating back 500 years in the country. In 1943, the entire family was moved to Auschwitz because they were Jewish.〔http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145657,00.html〕 Siggi, then 16, had already spent 3 years doing forced labor. One of his brothers was beaten to death by the Gestapo while the family was living in a Nazi controlled Ghetto with other Jewish families. Upon coming to the camp, Wilzig lied to Nazi guards, stating his age to be 18, not 16. This was his only chance for survival, as he was deemed old enough to work. At Auschwitz, 59 members of his family were killed over a three-year period.〔http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145657,00.html〕 After only two days at the concentration camp, his father was also killed. Siggi had to identify his father from a pile of corpses; his mother and grandmother were sent straight to the gas chamber, while his grandfather and one of his brothers were beaten to death, while two others were killed by Nazis guards just two days before the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp was liberated. Twenty times Siggi Wilzig faced the cold stare of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele during the selection process, and each he narrowly escaped death.〔http://www.newsweek.com/id/106883/output/print/〕
Although he had previously worked in the supply warehouses, nicknamed Canada by survivors his last four months in Auschwitz were spent working in a laundry, where the clothes of murdered Jews were washed and redistributed to the Germans.〔http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145657,00.html〕 Wilzig was the only child in his Jewish school class of 1,500 students〔http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/classified/paid-notice-deaths-wilzig-siggi-b.html〕 to survive the Nazis' genocidal efforts. In all he spent 1 years at Auschwitz and 6 months in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
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