"In my mind, 'Concentration Camp' I knew it was a terrible place and we would most likely be killed there, so it was fear, terrific fear, and, om, so we started hiding." ~ Ruth Ephraim, An Open Door
"[Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon] developed an affinity for Jews because he felt that there was a sort of a symbolic brotherhood between Filipinos and Jews. That is, as the Filipinos were the recipients of racial discrimination and bigotry on the part of many Americans at that time that the Jews were similarly recipients of bigotry by the Nazis and so, even though Quezon had extremely important and critical political and economic issues to wrestle with at this time, he was willing to take a stand to help the Jews." ~ Sharon Delmendo, Author and Commonwealth Historian
"My father spoke often of his Filipino friends and recounted things that were these small moments, but clearly moments that, for him, were all about friendship and happiness and something that was very light-hearted." ~ Michelle Ephraim, daughter of Frank Ephraim, Author of Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror
"Quezon, and so few people know that, President Quezon of The Philippines saved twelve-hundred Jewish souls, as many as Schindler, maybe even more, and that is the epitome, basically, of Judaism: it says, 'If you save one soul, you save Mankind.'" ~ Lotte Hershfield, Holocaust Survivor
