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Person
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Grau Alsina, Ramón
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History
Ramón Grau Alsina was the nephew of Ramón Grau San Martín, a prominent physician and president of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1948. Together with his sister Polita Grau Alsina, Grau Alsina orchestrated Operation Pedro Pan, which smuggled over 42,000 children out of Communist Cuba.