Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
The Shekel
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,6 (2008) 30-34
Keywords:
DuBois, Josiah E. Jr.
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Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
In 1943, Josiah E. DuBois Jr., a worker at the U.S. Treasury Department's Foreign Funds Control Division, discovered that State Department officials were deliberately obstructing opportunities to rescue Jews in occupied Europe. He made this discovery because a U.S. citizen wishing to send funds into enemy territory needed special permission from the State Department and the Treasury. After DuBois threatened to create a public scandal, the War Refugee Board was established by order of President Roosevelt, and DuBois was appointed its general counsel. Notes that DuBois and his colleagues at the WRB played a role in the rescue of ca. 200,000 Jewish and non-Jewish refugees toward the end of the war, despite the fact that the State Department often refused or delayed cooperation with their requests for assistance. After the war, DuBois headed the prosecution of the I.G. Farben directorate at a Nuremberg trial.
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