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].