In 1956 she married Siggi Wilzig, an Auschwitz survivor who later became CEO and President of The Trust Company of New Jersey.
When Nobel Prize winner Holocaust author Elie Wiesel was appointed to head the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Jimmy Carter, he asked that “Wilzig be the first person to serve with him.”
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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.
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On May 5, 1945, Wilzig — whose forearm bears the number the Nazis tattooed on him, 104732, was rescued from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, by the U.S. Army.