Author: Zandman, Felix,
Title: Never the Last Journey.
Description: NY, Schocken, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. As a teenager Zandman spent 18 months in Nazi-occupied Poland. His grandmother taught him that the only measure of wealth is. what you give away. He lost his only home in 1943 when his entire world, the ghetto in his native city of Grodno, was destroyed. He was jammed with four others into a tiny pit beneath the cottage of a poor Polish paseant. Lying next to him in the hole, his uncle taught him higher math that later led to his winning a doctorate in physics from Sorbonne. He is known on Wall Street as the brilliant scientist-entrepreneur whose billion-dollar Fortune 500 company Vishay Intertechnology reshaped the electronic component industry.

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