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President Manuel L. Quezon’s Open Door policy saved close to 1,300 Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust. https://www.unhcr.org/ph/17553-jewish-refugees.html
The untold story of how the five Frieder brothers, Cincinnati businessmen making two-for-a-nickel cigars in World War II Manila, together with Manuel Quezon, the charismatic first president of the Philippines, Paul McNutt, U.S. High Commissioner, and an ambitious U.S. Army Colonel named Dwight Eisenhower, helped 1,300 Jews escape Hitler’s Nazis and immigrate to the Philippines. Credit: https://www.youtube.com/@anything2do891
In the 1930s, when nations of the world were closing their doors to refugee Jews fleeing the growing horror of Hitler’s Germany, one small island nation in the Pacific, the Philippines, chose to do what others would not — save those lives. This rescue, orchestrated and empowered through President Manuel Quezon, gave the refugees a new welcoming homeland as the Filipino people opened their hearts and accepted them within the fabric of Philippine society. Today a monument to this rescue action stands in Rishon Le Zion, Israel. Credit: https://www.youtube.com/@SousaMendesFdn
Headline: Filipino Heroism in the midst of the recent war in Israel.
AJC Jerusalem Director Lt. Col. (Res.) Avital Leibovich recalls a powerful story of how a Filipino caregiver helped save the life of an elderly Israeli woman during Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Credit: https://www.youtube.com/@AJCGlobal
https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/02/world/asia/philippines-jews-wwii/index.html
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