Sigmund Strochlitz (December 20, 1916[2] – October 16, 2006)[3] was a Polish-born Jewish American entrepreneur, political activist, and Holocaust survivor.
[5] Between August 1943 and April 1945, he survived more than two years in Nazi concentration camps, including fifteen months at Auschwitz.
[4] While living in Germany in 1945,[5] Strochlitz married Rose Grinberg (1913–2001), a fellow Polish-born Holocaust survivor.
[6] Emigrating to New York in 1951, Strochlitz sold automobiles on Long Island before purchasing a car dealership, Whaling City Ford, in New London, Connecticut, in 1957.
[6] He built the business into a local institution and continued to run Whaling City Ford for almost fifty years until he died in 2006.