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Israel inaugurates Open Doors

in memory of the Israeli refugees to the Philippines

The monument

The monument

With a monument at the Holocaust Memorial Park in Tel Aviv, Israel remembers the "courage, hospitality and determination with which the Filipino government provided humanitarian support to the Jews" in 1939, when many Countries shut the doors to immigration.

A little known page of the Holocaust recently reconstructed in the book "Escape to Manila" by Frank Ephraim, a Berlinese Jewish refugee who at the time was only eight years old. After the failure of the Evian Conference in 1938 (where 32 Countries seeked a solution to the exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany) the then Filipino President Manuel Quezon, despite the opposition of the American State Department, gave hospitality to hundreds Jews by providing them with land and housing.

Read the article on Haaretz

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