Little known Quezon's World War II rescue of Jews, though capped by the US

In the late 1930s, President Manuel Quezon welcomed over 1,200 Jews from Germany and Austria into an unlikely haven in the Pacific archipelago. With his Open Doors policy, even as most nations closed their doors to Jewish refugees, these Jews - who came to be known as "Manilaners" - escaped Hitler's growing menace and reached the Philippine capital.