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With all of the millions of words we hear and read about the such instance we feel would gain your interest; it was brought of these Jews worked in the port. So much so that the port of
important issues of our time, it is surprising—and, sometimes, to our attention by a friend, Dr. Marvin Krause, and verified Thessaloniki was even closed on Saturday, Shabbat.
sad—to realize how often the most profound and poignant by the Snopes internet fact-checking service. Read it to the Great emeritus rabbis also lived and studied there. Everyone
facts of history are left unreported in the haste and hustle of very last important, meaningful sentence. rubbed shoulders and appreciated each other. But on September
covering the minute-by-minute developments announced by Over 80 years ago in Greece, 60,000 Jews lived peacefully 2nd, 1939, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II, it is on
officials in both private and government positions. Here is one in Thessaloniki. It was a valued and vibrant community. Most this great community that the Nazi terror suddenly arose.
On April 6th, 1941, Hitler invaded Greece in order to secure
its southern front before launching the famous Operation
Barbarossa and its great offensive against Russia. Of the 60,000
Jews in Thessaloniki, around 50,000 would be exterminated in
record time at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
General Dentistry Very few would have the chance to make it. But among the
The massacre of the Jews of Greece was brief but intense.

Cosmetic & Laser survivors there was a family with the name of Bourla.
Beginning on March 15th, 1943, the German deportation of

Jews from Thessaloniki began. Every three days, freight cars
crammed with an average of 2,000 Thessaloniki Jews headed
toward Auschwitz-Birkenau. By the summer of 1943, German
authorities had deported 46,091 Jews.
A Mr. Bourla and his brother witnessed the rest of their
family’s deportation from that location to the death camps
at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The two were able to survive, as
described by the progressive Jewish publication Forward,
“with forged papers — courtesy of sympathetic Catholics
influenced by Athens’ archbishop — and a job at a Red Cross
warehouse.”
Bourla’s wife, Sara, was able to hide from authorities by
Dr. Rosenbusch has been living with her older sister, who converted to marry a Christian
practicing dentistry for 32 years government officer named Kostas Dimadis. As described in
Forward, she nonetheless came perilously close to death at
and has extensive experience in the hands of the Nazis.
Sara lived in hiding but was spotted during her occasional
many aspects of dentistry. His walks through town, and was betrayed by a neighbor. She was
main focus is on Cosmetic transferred to a prison, where a bribe from her brother-in-law
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Her sister still checked the prison every day at noon, when
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was warranted; one day, Sara was put on the truck. Dimadis
bocadentist12@gmail.com called Merten in a fury for breaking his word. As Sara was lined
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23 Years Cosmetic and Laser carrying two soldiers with a paper of reprieve spared Sara and
another woman.
“As the truck was leaving the place, they heard the sound
of the machine guns,” Bourla said. “Everybody else was dying
and they were sitting there just three minutes ago.”
After the war, in 1961, a son was born into this miraculous
Your Dream Team, Upgraded! Bourla family in the camps. His parents called him Israel
Abraham. He grew up and studied veterinary medicine in
Greece. A brilliant student, Abraham got his doctorate in
reproductive biotechnology at the veterinary school of Aristotle
University in Salonika.
At the age of 34, he decided to move to the United States.
He changed his first name, Abraham, to Albert.
Albert was integrated into the medical industry. He
progressed quickly and joined a pharmaceutical company,
where he became “Head Manager.” Abraham (Albert) rose
through the ranks and was appointed CEO of the company in
2019.
Throughout the year, Albert decided to direct the efforts of
the company to finding a vaccine against a new virus (COVID),
THE HIRSH CENTER which had just struck the world. He expended great financial
and technological efforts toward achieving that goal.
A year later, the World Health Organization (WHO)
for ARTHRITIS and SPORTS MEDICINE validated his company to produce the long-awaited vaccine,
which today is distributed worldwide, including to Germany,
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This vaccine, which will save the lives of millions of people
around the world—including, ironically, many Germans—
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