... notice the Indiana connection below ....
“Rescue in The Philippines” is a one-hour documentary of the previously untold story of how the five Frieder brothers, Cincinnati businessmen making two-for-a-nickel cigars in pre-WWII Manila, together with Manuel Quezon, the charismatic first president of the Philippines, Paul McNutt, US High Commissioner and former governor of Indiana (preparing for his own presidential campaign) and an ambitious Army Colonel named Dwight Eisenhower - helped 1,200 Jews escape the Nazis and immigrate to the Philippines.
http://rescueinthephilippines.com/
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68189/poker-pals-in-philippines-took-gamble-saved-1200-jews/
Mary Farquhar’s earliest memory is of flame. Specifically, the flames of war in the last months of World War II, when Japanese forces battled the Americans in a fight to reclaim Manila, Farquhar’s city of refuge. She was a toddler at the time, the daughter of Austrian Jews given safe harbor in the Philippines, where she was born in 1943. In 1940, refugees in the Philippines gather in Manila at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Frieder.
Hers was one of hundreds of European Jewish families — 1,200 Jews in all — taken in by the Pacific island nation between 1938 and 1941, saved from the Nazis by an unlikely alliance of Americans and Filipinos determined to do the right thing.
A new one-hour documentary, “Rescue in the Philippines,” seeks to set the record straight on this forgotten bit of Holocaust history. The film will air on PBS stations around the country beginning this week and will also premiere in San Francisco with a pair of free screenings on April 7 at the New People Cinema
Mary Farquhar’s earliest memory is of flame. Specifically, the flames of war in the last months of World War II, when Japanese forces battled the Americans in a fight to reclaim Manila, Farquhar’s city of refuge. She was a toddler at the time, the daughter of Austrian Jews given safe harbor in the Philippines, where she was born in 1943. In 1940, refugees in the Philippines gather in Manila at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Frieder.
Hers was one of hundreds of European Jewish families — 1,200 Jews in all — taken in by the Pacific island nation between 1938 and 1941, saved from the Nazis by an unlikely alliance of Americans and Filipinos determined to do the right thing.
A new one-hour documentary, “Rescue in the Philippines,” seeks to set the record straight on this forgotten bit of Holocaust history. The film will air on PBS stations around the country beginning this week and will also premiere in San Francisco with a pair of free screenings on April 7 at the New People Cinema
