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REMEMBERING HOLOCAUST VICTIMS. Six candles are lighted at the Philippine-Israel Friendship Park in Quezon City on Thursday (Jan. 27, 2022) to commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. At the time of the Holocaust, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said the refuge the Philippines gave to the fleeing victims under President Manuel L. Quezon's Open Door Policy was a defining moment in the country's friendship with the Jews. (Photo courtesy of Israel Embassy in Manila) MANILA The Philippines and Israel on Thursday honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the darkest point in history that saw the mass murder of around six million Jews. "Six million Jews were murdered - one-third of the Jewish population, only because they were Jewish," Ambassador Ilan Fluss said during a symposium hosted by the Israel Embassy in Manila and the Department of Education (DepEd). "We are gathered today to remember and commemorate the Holocaust