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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biografie Biography |
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Named Person: | Joseph Cysner; Joseph Cysner |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bonnie Mae Harris |
ISBN: | 9780299324605 0299324605 9780299324643 0299324648 |
OCLC Number: | 1105747167 |
Description: | xvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : open doors to the Philippines -- Joseph Cysner : from Hamburg to Zbaszyna to Manila -- FDR, Evian, and the refugee crisis -- Open hearts : Jewish rescue in the Philippines -- Mindanao, a new Palestine -- Japan and Europe's refugee Jews -- Peletah--deliverance -- Conclusion : the will to save. |
Series Title: | New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies. |
Responsibility: | Bonnie M. Harris. |
Abstract:
Between 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1,300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine president Manual Quezon and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Bonnie Harris offers fuller implications for our understanding of the Roosevelt administration's response to the Holocaust.
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- Cysner, Joseph, -- 1912-1961.
- Jews -- Philippines -- Manila -- History -- 20th century.
- Jewish refugees -- Philippines -- Manila -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Philippines.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jews.
- Philippines.
- Philippines -- Manila.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Rescue.