Quezon's Game, how Filipino president Manuel Quezon rescued 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust

In 1939, more than 1,200 Jews were saved from the horrors of Nazi concentration camps by a man with a list.
While many people know of Oskar Schindler — the hero made famous by Thomas Keneally's novel and Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List — there was another man with another list.
That man was then-Filipino president Manuel Quezon, whose exploits are little known in the Philippines, let alone around the world.
But cinema director Matthew Rosen, a British-born Jew living in the Philippines, was determined that everyone should know about Quezon's selfless act in a "time of darkness".
His efforts are for all to see in Quezon's Game, a low-budget period drama that opened in limited release in Australia recently.


Battle against America

Quezon's Game details the efforts of the charismatic president who aimed to bring 10,000 Jews to the Philippines.
In 1939 his nation was transitioning towards independence and remained effectively under US control, which meant the Americans controlled the number of immigrants allowed in to his country.


Former Philippines president (1935-1944) Manuel L Quezon.(Supplied: US Library of Congress
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"In the end, his greatest roadblock to bringing Jews to his country was not the Nazis, but the American Government," Rosen said.


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