Josiah E. DuBois, Jr

Josiah E. DuBois, Jr

Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., (1913-1983) was a Treasury Department official who played a major role in exposing State Department obstruction of efforts to provide American visa to Jews trying to escape Nazi Europe. [ [http://www.wymaninstitute.org/duboiscont.php David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome ] ]

DuBois, a 1934 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was Special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1944-45; general counsel of the War Refugee Board, 1944; member of Allied Reparations Commission, Moscow, 1945; member U.S. delegation, Berlin Conference (Potsdam), 1945; and deputy chief of counsel for War Crimes in charge of I.G. Farben case, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947-48 [ [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/duboisje.htm Truman Library - Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. Oral History Interview ] ]

DuBois wrote the famous "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews," which Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., used to convince President Franklin Roosevelt to establish the War Refugee Board in 1944. [ [http://www.wymaninstitute.org/duboiscont.php David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome ] ]

Historian Rafael Medoff will soon publish a book about DuBois, Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for an American Response to the Holocaust. [ www.forward.com/article/11524/ ]

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