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Operation Texas
In 1938 Lyndon Baines Johnson, then a Congressman and later the 36th President of the United States of America, worked to establish a refuge in Texas for European Jews fleeing Nazi occupied Germany. Johnson helped hundreds of European Jews enter Texas through Cuba, Mexico and South America.
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