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==Legacy== [[Quezon City]], the province of [[Quezon]], [[Quezon Bridge]] in Manila, [[Manuel L. Quezon University]], and many streets are named after him. The [[Quezon Service Cross]] is the Philippines' highest honor. Quezon is memorialized on [[Philippine peso|Philippine currency]], appearing on the [[Philippine twenty-peso note]] and two commemorative 1936 one-peso [[Coins of the Philippine peso|coins]]: one with [[Frank Murphy]] and another with [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]].<ref name="coins">{{Cite web |title=Picture of commemorative coin |url=http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/1244/05912288/1936-M%20Murphy-Quezon%20Peso%20PCGS%20MS65%20-%20Obv.jpg |access-date=10 September 2012 |website=Caimages.collectors.com |archive-date=4 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304203212/http://caimages.collectors.com/coinimages/1244/05912288/1936-M%20Murphy-Quezon%20Peso%20PCGS%20MS65%20-%20Obv.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> Open Doors, a Holocaust memorial in [[Rishon LeZion]], Israel, is a {{convert|7|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall}} sculpture designed by Filipino artist Luis Lee Jr. It was erected in honor of Quezon and the Filipinos who saved over 1,200 Jews from [[Nazi Germany]].<ref name="CNN-1200Jews">{{Cite news |last=Park |first=Madison |date=2 February 2015 |title=How the Philippines saved 1,200 Jews during Holocaust |work=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/02/world/asia/philippines-jews-wwii/index.html |access-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203073625/http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/02/world/asia/philippines-jews-wwii/index.html |archive-date=3 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="AsianJournal-Monument">{{Cite news |last=Contreras |first=Volt |date=31 December 2010 |title=Monument in Israel Honors Filipinos |work=Asian Journal |publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer |location=Manila |url=http://asianjournalusa.com/monument-in-israel-honors-filipinos-p9958-60.htm |access-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221165212/http://asianjournalusa.com/monument-in-israel-honors-filipinos-p9958-60.htm |archive-date=21 February 2014}}</ref> [[Municipalities of the Philippines|Municipalities]] in six [[provinces of the Philippines|provinces]] are named after Quezon: [[Quezon, Bukidnon]]; [[Quezon, Isabela]]; [[Quezon, Nueva Ecija]]; [[Quezon, Nueva Vizcaya]]; [[Quezon, Palawan]]; and [[Quezon, Quezon]]. The ''Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon'' was inscribed in the [[UNESCO]] [[Memory of the World Register]] in 2011.<ref name="UNESCO-QuezonPapers">{{Cite web |title=Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/presidential-papers-of-manuel-l-quezon/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014020523/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/presidential-papers-of-manuel-l-quezon/ |archive-date=14 October 2018 |access-date=14 October 2018 |website=UNESCO}}</ref> Quezon Island is the most developed island in the [[Hundred Islands National Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 May 2016 |title=31 Interesting Facts About Hundred Islands National Park - Jacaranda's Travels - Philippines Tourists Spots |url=http://jacarandatravels.com/31-interesting-facts-hundred-islands-national-park/ |access-date=25 April 2018 |website=Jacarandatravels.com |archive-date=10 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410133051/http://jacarandatravels.com/31-interesting-facts-hundred-islands-national-park/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Annually on 19 August, Manuel L. Quezon Day is celebrated throughout the Philippines as a special working holiday, except for the provinces of [[Quezon]] (including [[Lucena]]) and [[Aurora (province)|Aurora]] and [[Quezon City]], where it is a non-working holiday.<ref name="GovPH-PP2105">{{Cite web |date=18 August 1981 |title=Proclamation No. 2105, s. 1981 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1981/08/18/proclamation-no-2105-s-1981/ |access-date=2 June 2020 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319123253/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1981/08/18/proclamation-no-2105-s-1981/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 August 1949 |title=Republic Act No. 6471 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1989/08/04/republic-act-no-6741-2/ |access-date=17 August 2021 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817072339/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1989/08/04/republic-act-no-6741-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His birthplace Baler is now part of [[aurora (province)|Aurora]], which was a sub-province of Quezon and was named after his cousin and wife. [[List of Memory of the World Documentary Heritage in the Philippines|The Presidential Papers of Manuel Luis Quezon]] was inscribed in the UNESCO [[Memory of the World Register – Asia and the Pacific]] in 2010, and in the UNESCO [[Memory of the World Programme#Memory of the World Register|Memory of the World International Register]] in 2011.<ref>https://www.unesco.gov.ph/2025/04/philippine-documentary-heritage/</ref> <gallery heights="160"> File:QSCMedal.jpg|alt=A medal in a case|The [[Quezon Service Cross]], the Philippines' highest civilian honor File:QuezonMonumentjf7744 03.JPG|alt=Outdoor monument of a standing Quezon|Monument in [[Lucena]] File:Manuel L. Quezon-TIME-1935.jpg|alt=See caption|''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' cover, 1935 File:Manuel L. Quezón 1978 stamp of the Philippines.jpg|alt=See caption|1978 birth-centenary stamp File:1878-1978 MANUEL L QUEZON commemorative.jpg|Commemorative {{₱|50}} coin released in 1978 File:20 peso Coin Philippines font.png|[[Philippine twenty-peso coin|₱20 coin]] introduced in 2019 File:PHP200 English series bill.jpg|alt=Picture of Quezon on a green banknote|{{₱|200}} English series banknote File:Presidential Car of Manuel Luis Quezon.jpg|The 1935 Cadillac V-16 car of President Quezon displayed at the [[Presidential Car Museum]] </gallery>
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