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Manilaners
During WWII, in U.S.-occupied Philippines, a specific group of people have experienced both Nazism and the Japanese Occupation. When Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon with the help of then High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Colonel Dwight Eisenhower and Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1938 as part of the Open Door Policy decided to welcome more than a thousand Jews, a number surpassing that of Schindler’s List, these German and Austrian Jews escaping Kristallnachthave found homes and jobs in Manila. Unfortunately, the Japanese occupation would soon again disrupt their lives. In other words, for these emigrants, the memories of WWII included both the Holocaust and the Japanese occupation. These refugees have called themselves Manilaners – a hybridised Filipino-German word, which, on the outset, would signify those who have escaped Nazism to settle in Manila. Most of the refugees settled in Manila, though the original plan was to have them all relocated at Mindanao, which was still developing at that time.

Reference:

https://www.academia.edu/10582014/Manilaner_Memories_Bridging_WWII_Memories_of_East_and_West

AlessRances (talk) 09:24, 27 August 2019 (UTC)