They all have a story like this:

Bourla was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece.[3] His parents, who were Sephardi J***ws, were among the 2,000 of 50,000 J****ws in Thessaloniki to survive the Holocaust; his mother was minutes away from execution by firing squad when she was spared via a ransom paid to a Nazi Party official by her non-J***ish brother-