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ix Acknowledgments This book describes what Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., did to help bring about the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust. It is neither a biography of DuBois nor a comprehensive history of the War Refugee Board, the U.S. government rescue agency that he helped bring into existence and of which he was a leader. Those are books that remain to be written. DuBois’s own memoir, The Devil’s Chemists, mentioned only briefly and in passing what he did during the Holocaust.1 He wrote almost exclusively about his postwar experiences as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials . That period of his life is not part of the story on which I focus. In these pages, I seek to tell the story of his role in Holocaust rescue, through his own words and the words of those with whom he worked in this struggle. They are derived from previously unpublished interviews as well as documents from the period. Martin Ostrow, Lawrence Jarvik, Henry Morgenthau III, Lawrence Glaser, Richard Breitman , and Alan Kraut kindly made their interviews with the principal figures in this story available for my use, and I am grateful to them for doing so. Thanks, too, to Benyamin Korn, Prof. Harry Reicher, and David Lee Preston for their roles in the 2006 conference on DuBois, organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and held at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, DuBois’s alma mater. I acknowledge, with deepest appreciation, the generous support of the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation for publication of this book. I am likewise grateful for the assistance of the Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., Memorial Publication Committee , whose members, Richard Goodwin, Regine and Edward Barshak, Annette Lidawer, Bernice Zoslaw, Dr. Nathan Moskowitz, James Blum, and Dr. Jay Rothschild , facilitated the completion of this book. I am thankful to Prof. Richard Libowitz and Prof. Zev Garber for their many helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript, and to Professors Deborah Dwork, Alan Berger, David Dalin, and Leonard Swidler for their assistance and encouragement. I am also grateful to Gerry Gersten, for his extraordinary cover illustration, and Neal Adams, of Continuity Graphics, for assisting with the color scheme for the cover; to Dr. Nathan Moskowitz for his many helpful suggestions with regard to the artwork for this book; to Betty Igdalski Lawler, Esq., for her research assistance; and to Hank Sheinkopf and Austin Shafran of Sheinkopf, Ltd., for their help in bringing this book to greater public attention. And a special thanks to Purdue University Press director Thomas Bacher, author liaison Becki Corbin, production and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x design manager Bryan Shaffer, and copyeditor John Joerschke for making the publication of this book possible. Thanks, too, to Robert C. DuBois and his family for allowing reproduction of photographs of his father and mother. This book is dedicated to my wife, Carin—as our sages teach, “He who finds a righteous wife, has found goodness and will find favor from the Lord” (Proverbs 18:22). Note 1. Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., The Devil’s Chemists (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1952), 184–189, 197–199. ...

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