For honest, successful entrepreneurs, the fabled journey from rags to riches is peppered with initiative, misfortune, reward, luck (good and bad), and lessons galore. In the remarkable life of the late Samuel Klein, all those elements were present in such superabundance as to render his true story almost unbelievable. It is certainly one of the most incredible I have ever run across, and it involves two of my very favorite countries as well. Rags to riches is, in this instance, an understatement. At his lowest point, Klein was on death row in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland. At the other extreme some years later, he was one of the richest men in Brazil, a world away. The Son of a Carpenter Klein was born to Jewish parents on November 15, 1923, in Zaklików in southeastern Poland. It is a small town even today, boasting barely 3,000 inhabitants. Notably, its citizens …