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Dr. Leon Saltiel, a Thessaloniki-born historian and expert on the Holocaust in Greece, presented at Melbourne's Holocaust Museum on April 24. He discussed his award-winning books, "The Holocaust in: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943," and "Do Not Forget Me: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto."
Chargers helmet | Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images The Los Angeles Chargers hold the 13th pick in the first round of the NFL Draft that will commence this Thursday. The general expectation is that they will take an offensive tackle. The receiving crops around rising star Justin Herbert is stacked, but the man can only do so much if given two seconds to throw on every passing down. This year's tackle class isn't overflowing with first-round talent, but good prospects like Rashawn Slater or Alijah Vera-Tucker will be there for the taking. The point? Nobody is expecting much noise from the Charger...
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Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla and journalist Robert Krulwich at a Museum of Jewish Heritage event. Photo: screenshot Dr. Albert Bourla, who as Pfizer CEO helped deliver the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, gave an emotional account Thursday of how his parents narrowly survived the horrors of the Holocaust in their native Greece. Speaking to longtime science reporter Robert Krulwich, Bourla described a series of seemingly miraculous events that saw his parents Mois and Sara live through World War II and raise the future pharmaceutical executive in the Greek city of Thessalo...
Parents of Pfizer CEO Bourla Narrowly Escaped Death in Holocaust February 4, 2021 The family of Dr. Albert Bourla of Thessaloniki, Greece, before the war. Bourla’s mother Sara is the young girl in the middle of the photograph. Credit: Dr. Albert Bourla/LinkedIn If it hadn’t been for the kindness of an uncle and the insight of his grandfather, Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla, a Thessaloniki native, would never have been born. A descendant of the Jews of Greece’s second-largest city, Bourla’s ancestors, like those of almost all the Thessaloniki Jews, had come to the country after the edict...