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Immigration, refugee policy focus of April 25 forum
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NEWCASTLE The Frances Perkins Center will present its seventh annual public policy forum “Conscience and Courage: Frances Perkins and Dr. Feng Shan Ho,” which focuses on immigration and refugee policy at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25.
The forum will cover how Perkins and Shan Ho used their positions of public office and ingenious strategies,despite strong national government opposition, to provide tens of thousands of Jews a means of escape from the Holocaust in Europe.
Bat-Ami Zucker
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Keynote speakers for the forum include Bat-Ami Zucker, historian and professor emerita, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; and Manli Ho, a journalist and biographer for her late father, Dr. Feng Shan Ho, consul-general of China in Vienna from 1938-40. ....

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