1941 CE:GREECE
Rav Moshe, a Lithuanian–born (1895) Orthodox rabbi and religious scholar–extraordinaire Moshe Feinstein, was known endearingly as Rav Moshe. He chaired the Agudah rabbinical committee, and was regarded by many as the supreme arbiter of Jewish Law for decades until his death in 1986.
1944 CE: MORGENTHAU
January: Washington, DC: “War Refugee Board” created.
…(years into the Holocaust) by Franklin Roosevelt – at the behest of [Jewish American] Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau II and allies in the Roosevelt hierarchy – to aid civilian victims of the Nazi and Axis powers.
[His father, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during WWI.]
[Henry Morgenthau II’s son, Robert Morgenthau, has been the Manhattan D.A. (District Attorney) since 1975].
1944 CE: VON NEUMANN
He releases Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (along with Oskar Morgenstern).
Born Dec. 28, 1903; died Feb. 8, 1957
Britannica –
“[Jewish] Hungarian–born American mathematician. As an adult, he appended von to his surname; the hereditary title had been granted his father in 1913. Von Neumann grew from child prodigy to one of the world’s foremost mathematicians by his mid–twenties.