Josiah E. DuBois, Jr

Who was Josiah E. DuBois, Jr?

Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., 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.

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, 1945; and deputy chief of counsel for War Crimes in charge of I.G. Farben case, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947-48