My dear friend Fred Kort of Los Angeles was one of the five that Fortune Magazine selected to highlight in this extraordinary article. and I want to pay tribute to him today. Fred Kort. like the other four singled out by Fortune Magazine. has a unique story. but there are common threads to these five tales of personal success. The story of the penniless immigrant who succeeds in America is a familiar theme in our nations lore. but these stories involve a degree of courage and determination unmatched in the most inspiring of Horatio Algers stories. These men were. in the words of author Carol J. Loomis. "Holocaust survivors in the most rigorous sense." they "actually experienced the most awful horrors of the Holocaust. enduring a Nazi death camp or a concentration camp or one of the ghettos that were essentially holding pens for those camps." They picked themselves up "from the very cruelest of circumstances. they traveled to America and prospered as businessmen.
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