Sam Benrubi

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Sam Benrubi (Greek: Σαμ Μπενρουμπή) is a Greek-Jewish business man born and raised in Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece. He is the son of Haim Benrubi, a wealthy and prominent Greek-Jewish business man who in 1880 established the Benrubi Company. Sam Benrubi grew up in a prosperous home at the famous Tsimiski Street of Salonica. During the Nazi occupation of Greece, Sam Benrubi's family fled from Salonica. The Gestapo chased the family for nearly two years but failed to capture it as it was hiding at different houses in Athens and later in Patras where the family was saved by the Greek doctor Anagnostopoulos. The doctor had a large home that also sheltered a clinic at the first floor. Sam's parents were placed in the clinic acting as patients while Sam and his siblings where on the second floor of the doctor's home acting as his nieces from Salonica. When the Gestapo came looking for the family at the doctor's home, Dr Anagnostopoulos told the Germans that they could enter the clinic but at their own risk as the patients treated their suffered from contagious diseases. This action by the doctor refrained the Gestapo from entering the clinic and Sam and his family was saved.