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May 9, 2019 · President Manuel Quezon faced tough opposition in bringing Jewish refugees in the Philippines. The year 1938 was the time when Nazis burned down hundreds of synagogues, arrested 30,000 Jews, whose homes they also ransacked. This news reached President Quezon, who empathized with the Jews.
Mar 6, 2020 · With the aid of then-US high commissioner Paul McNutt and an ambitious young US military adviser named Dwight D Eisenhower, Quezon eventually pressured America to allow about 1,200 Jews to immigrate from Germany and Austria.
Apr 1, 2022 · In the late 1930s, President Manuel Quezon implemented an “open door” policy which transformed Manila into a safe haven for over a thousand Jewish refugees persecuted by the Nazis. At that time, almost no country in the world was willing to keep refugees from Nazi Germany.
Feb 2, 2015 · The Philippines' first president, Manuel Quezon and U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines, Paul McNutt, devised a strategy to grant visas to European Jews, who were fleeing the Holocaust....
Aug 19, 2020 · More: Why President Manuel Quezon Sheltered Jewish Refugees in the Philippines in 1939. Another portrait of Quezon. President Manuel L. Quezon after his inauguration. President Manuel L. Quezon and Vice President Sergio Osmeña
In 1934, under the admittance of President Manuel L. Quezon and U.S. High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution were able to find sanctuary in the Philippines before Filipinos and Jews alike experienced the brunt of the Second World War.
Feb 18, 2013 · The documentary "An Open Door" chronicles how President Manuel Quezon and the Philippines provided refuge for 1,300 Jews that fled Germany in the 1930s, thus saving them from the Holocaust.
