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The One Thousand Children (OTC) [1] [2] is a designation, created in 2000, which is used to refer to the approximately 1,400 Jewish children who were rescued from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied or threatened European countries, and who were taken directly to the United States during the period 1934–1945.
[143] [144] [145] Quezon and McNutt proposed to have 30,000 refugee families on Mindanao, and 40,000-50,000 refugees on Polillo. Quezon gave, as a 10-year loan to Manila's Jewish Refugee Committee, land beside Quezon's family home in Marikina. The land would house homeless refugees in Marikina Hall, dedicated on 23 April 1940. [146]
Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany. University Press of New England, 2001. ISBN 978-1-58465-106-2; Louise London. Whitehall and The Jews, 1933—1948: British Immigration Policy, Jewish Refugees, and the Holocaust, 1933—1948. Cambridge University Press, p. 327. 2000. ISBN 978-0-521-53449-9. Pamela Rotner ...
In honor of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, the Kraus Family Foundation and the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced on April 30, 2019, on the eve of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the formation of the Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Initiative for Immigrant and Refugee Justice. The foundation’s cofounders, Peter (the grandson of Gilbert ...
Frank Foley risked his life to save the lives of thousands of German Jews. Without the protection of diplomatic immunity he visited internment camps and sheltered Jewish refugees in his house. Frank Foley was a true British hero. It is right that we should honour him at the British Embassy in Berlin, not far from where he once worked.
Wohlthat made a request for readiness to accept refugees: it turned out that in the USA and other countries, work on preparing for the reception of refugees was at an early stage. In May, a delegation of German Jews in London also did not receive any documentary evidence of readiness to facilitate the emigration of Jews from Germany. [6]
He helped anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees escape from Vichy France, which was dominated by Nazi Germany. Author Susan Subak said of the rescue activities in France that "it is the small group of American Christians overseas -- the Unitarian Service Committee and their collaborators, Varian Fry and Donald Lowrie -- who risked their lives over many ...
The family had a history of offering shelter to those in need: Strobos' parents had previously taken in refugees from earlier conflicts, [4] [6] while Strobos' grandmother had sheltered Belgian refugees during World War I. [8] When Strobos was ten years old, her parents divorced. She lived with her mother. [6]