Grandma's army

I am indebted to Joshua M. Greene on whose fascinating biography of a “superman” called “ Unstoppable ”, I based the following blogs:                                                                                                       The story of Siggy Wilzig is incredible. He arrived in America with no resources or credentials. He spoke with a thick German accent, had only an elementary school education, stood five feet five and a half inches short, and years of torture and starvation were still fresh in his mind. However, he made three promises to himself: never to go hungry again; marry a Jewish woman, have children, and help rebuild the Jewish people; preserve Holocaust memory and speak up whenever he witnessed injustice. Siggy was the only survivor in his family, of Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Mathausen. He came to America poor and uneducated, and rose from cleaning sweatshop toilets to becoming CEO of a New York Stock Exchange; a listed oil company; and a multi