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August 30, 2016

How a Poker Club Rescued Hundreds of German Jews from the Nazis

With some help from Dwight Eisenhower.

When 28 German Jewish refugees arrived in Manila via Shanghai in 1937, Alex and Philip Frieder—Jews who owned a local cigar-manufacturing business—decided to do something to bring more of their brethren to the Philippines, then an American territory. To this end, they enlisted their poker buddies. Robert Rockaway and Maya Guez write:

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