The scale and circumstances differ between the pandemic’s toll and the Nazi-engineered genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II. The enduring lesson of the ages, Fauci said, is not just “that goodness and evil coexist, but that we are free to choose one over the other.” “I believe that the healing arts lie on the path of goodness, the same path all of you have chosen in remembering and listening to the voices of those who perished in the Holocaust,” Fauci said. President Joe Biden, who was recognized for moral courage in medicine. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to U.S. The online ceremony included a special award for Dr. In 2021, “we salute the relentless commitment of the selfless professionals facing today’s world health crisis.” But for a second year in a row, Wednesday’s event took place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.ĭoctors like the one who delivered Artal in the most harrowing circumstances “served as rays of light during the Holocaust,” the event’s organizers said. Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Germany, in Poland. “I've heard that story so many times, I could become nothing else” but a doctor, he chuckled during a recent interview from his Los Angeles-area home.īy birth and by choice, he personifies the theme of this year’s International March of the Living - an educational program that coincides with Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day. His mother was right: Now, Artal, 78, is a retired obstetrician himself. A determined Jewish doctor in a concentration camp in 1943 delivered Artal in a barn, despite his feet-first position - and saved the lives of both mother and son. JERUSALEM (AP) - Like so many mothers, Raul Artal’s insisted that her son was going to be a doctor.īut there was a history - and heroism - behind her ambitions for him.
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