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Marcus Choleva ( April 12 , 1933 ) is a Danish billionaire and CEO of a quite successful Danish concern called KFI (Købmændenes Finansieringsinstitut) which is translated to "The Merchants' financing-institute". BIOGRAPHY Mr. Marcus Choleva is of Jewish origin, and most of his family came from Eastern Europe, his last name, Choleva (Originally spelled Cholewa), is Polish and purportedly meaning a boot shaft. (Choleva is pronounced 'sholeva' and not cho-leva). Background After the battles of Stalingrad and El-Alamein the incidents of resistance, violent and symbolic, increased exponentially in Denmark. In March 1943 the Germans allowed an election that embarrassed them by giving good results to anti-Nazi parties. The election, discontent, and a growing feeling of optimism that Germany would be defeated led to wide spread Strike s and Civil Disturbance s in the Summer of 1943. The Danish government refused to deal with the situation in a way that would satisfy the Germans, so on 29 August 1943 the Germans officially dissolved the Danish government and instituted Martial Law . While the collaboration between the Danish government and the German government ended in August 29th, 1943, the Germans also started persecuting the Jews of Denmark, whom the Danish government had been very keen on protecting. However, while a lot of fortunate Danish Jews (and other Jews who fled to Denmark to escape German persecution) had the opportunity to flee to Sweden by boat, Marcus Choleva and his family, were not that fortunate due to some supposedly anti-Semitic neighbours whom divulged their location to the Gestapo. He and his family were shortly thereafter assailed, captured and sent to a concentration camp called Theresienstadt, by the Germans. While the Danish Jews were treated exceptionally better in Theresienstadt, compared to other Jews in the same concentration camp; a few Danish Jews actually died in Theresienstadt, mostly of old age, and possibly because of improper treatment of the elderly Danish Jews. Nonetheless, Marcus Choleva and most of his family survived the Holocaust and its atrocities, even though they spent a year and a half in a concentration camp, hardly a pleasant thing to experience. RECENT EXPLOITS Last year, Marcus Choleva earned 14 million kroner (roughly, 2.5 million USD), a record-high salary in Denmark, and was twice the amount of his nearest competitor. The three, that are in the same slip flow as Choleva, were Lars Rebien Sørensen from Novo Nordisk, that earned 8.5 million kroner (roughly, 1.37 million USD), Henning Dyremose from TDC 8.4 million kroner (roughly, 1.36 million USD) and Eric Rylberg from ISS 7.9 million kroner (roughly, 1.27 million USD). KFI's board of directors says that the salary is well deserved and depends solely on his performance as a CEO. Philanthropist Marcus Choleva has donated a considerable amount of money, and a statue of remembrance to the Israeli holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. EXTERNAL LINKS
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