The executive director of "Pfizer" Albert Burla donated 1 million dollars, which he received as a laureate of the prestigious "Genesis" prize for 2022, to the Holocaust Museum in Greece, reports in "Kathimerini", quoted by BTA.

The annual $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed the "Jewish Nobel" by Time magazine, is awarded to outstanding individuals for outstanding professional achievements, contributions to humanity, commitment to Jewish values ​​and the State of Israel.

Burla was announced as the winner of the award in Jerusalem on Wednesday at a gala event attended by Israeli officials, ministers, business leaders and heads of philanthropic organizations.

Pfizer CEO Albert Burla received the Genesis Award at a ceremony in Jerusalem

The Genesis Prize was presented by the President of Israel, Yitzhak Herzog.

He highly rated the work of the company's specialists.

"This vaccine has given us freedom that we thought we had lost," noted the head of state.

Burla was born in Thessaloniki and is a member of the city's Jewish community, whose roots date back to the 15th century, when Jews fleeing persecution in Spain settled in the city.

Of nearly 50,000 people in the community, almost 45,000 were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in occupied Poland, where only a few hundred survived.