Manuel Luis Quezon to receive award for inviting Jews to PH

A prominent Jewish organization based in the United States will confer an award on the late President Manuel Luis Quezon on Monday for his opening the Philippines to refugees from the Holocaust between 1937 and 1941.

Ricardo Ramos, head of the Pilipinas Sandiwa Heritage Foundation, said the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a 103-year-old movement against anti-Semitism, shall bestow on Quezon the Jan Karski Courage to Care Award in ceremonies on March 21.

The award is named after the Polish diplomat “who visited concentration camps and tried to warn Western nations about the plight of the European Jews,” the ADL said.

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