How unspeakable evil, prejudice, intolerance – and the threat of domination and loss of liberty – elicits the determination to defeat it.
How the American values of freedom and liberty for everyone – of protecting the weak and rescuing the persecuted – found a perfect complement in a young president fighting for his country’s freedom and independence with his own respect for every human life.
This is also the story of how a young nation – at considerable political risk – takes its seat at the table of nations by demonstrating moral courage equal to – at this time far superior to – larger, wealthier, stronger nations.
And this is the story of how one freedom loving fledgling democracy bonded with the world’s other freedom loving fledgling democracy – Israel. On November 29, 1947, the Philippines cast the deciding U.N. vote in favor of Israeli statehood. Today the Open Door monument stands in Israel commemorating the courage and bravery of the Philippines in their rescue of 1300 Jews.