Nov

9 2015

Community-Wide Kristallnacht Program - The Philippine Jewish Connection

7:00PM - 9:00PM  

Asper Jewish Community Campus 123 Doncaster Street
Winnipeg, MB R3N 2B2

Contact Rhonda Prepes
204-477-7424
rprepes@jewishwinnipeg.org

This year’s KRISTALLNACHT program will be entitled the Philippine-Jewish connection and will honour the Filipino community for their efforts in providing a place of refuge for German Jews before the Holocaust.

Featuring “Rescue in the Philippines”, a one hour documentary of how the Freider brothers, together with Manuel Quezon, the first president of the Philippines; Paul McNutt, US High Commissioner and former governor of Indiana; and Army Colonel Dwight Eisenhower helped 1,200 Jews escape the Nazis and immigrate to the Philippines.

Sponsor: Federation, Rady JCC, and CIJA