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Fauci receives award from Holocaust remembrance group and references Maimonides   April 16, 2021 (JTA) — Drawing a line between its mission of Holocaust remembrance and the ravages inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, the March of the Living honored Dr. Anthony Fauci with an award for “moral courage in medicine” on the eve of Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust commemoration day. The award to Fauci, who for decades has been the top U.S. official handling infectious diseases, culminated in an online program on Wednesday called “Medicine and Morality.” In his acceptance remarks, Fauc...

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Dr. Anthony Fauci Discuss Lessons From The Holocaust Share to Facebook Drew Angerer/Getty Images As the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla made headlines for his professional accomplishments, leading the pharmaceutical giant that jointly developed one of the Covid-19 vaccines. But few know about his family history. Today, on National Holocaust Remembrance Day, he decided to change that. In its mission to “explore the ethical implications of the medical transgressions that took place during the Holocaust,” The Maimonides Institute for Medicine Ethics & The Holocaust (MI...

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...

Albert Bourla: My Family’s Story: Why We Remember LinkedIn 1/29/2021 © Provided by LinkedIn This week, as we do every year, we commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day so that the stories of the victims and survivors are never forgotten. Yesterday, I was deeply honored to join the Sephardic Heritage International in DC ‘s Annual Congressional Holocaust Commemoration to share my family’s story in connection with the Holocaust. You can watch me deliver my remarks or read them below. Remembrance. It’s this word, perhaps more than any other, that inspired me to share my pa...