Giving Back
Posted on February 07, 2011 at 11:22Every day I draw inspiration from the cause that's at the foundation of my music and my artistic career, namely raising funds for The Peaceman Foundation.
The Peaceman Foundation is a private foundation that I established to battle Hate Crimes and to treat those suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.).
My family and I have suffered greatly from the biggest Hate Crime in history -- Adolph Hitler's murder of 6 million Jews. During the Holocaust, at the age of 17, my father Siggi B. Wilzig, was transported to Auschwitz, the worst of all the Nazi extermination camps. He survived the war, but altogether 59 of my relatives were murdered by the Nazi's. Having seen his mother sent straight to the gas chambers and having watched his father beaten to death during forced slave labor, my own father suffered headaches, flashbacks, anxiety attacks and nightmares for the rest of his life -- all classic symptoms of P.T.S.D. Therefore, it has been ingraned in me since childhood to prevent genocide and hate crimes towards anyone, and to help those who are victims of hate crimes.
September 11th marked the single worst hate crime on American soil in recent history. In today's world, Islamic terrorism is the world's most immediate hate crime and our soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afganistan are suffering severe symptoms of P.T.S.D., the worst being attempted suicide. Therefore, I am donating all of my recording artist royalties from my album sales to The Peaceman Foundation, which will distribute the funds to charitable organizations that battle Hate Crimes and treat P.T.S.D. I want to help save countless livew by preventing Hate Crimes from happening in the first place and by keeping Hate Crime victims from committing suicide.
