Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro (1903-1987), a member of Congress in the 1940s, supported the Bergson Group's campaigns for rescue of refugees and Jewish statehood. D'Alesandro, a Democrat, was a member of the House of Representatives from 1939 to 1947, and then mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. Beginning...
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Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971), governor of New York and unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee, was the first candidate for the White House to raise the Nazi persecutions and Zionism as campaign issues. Dewey declared March 9, 1943, the opening of the Bergson Group's We Will Never Die pageant...
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Samuel Dickstein (1885-1954), a Democratic congressman from New York, challenged the Roosevelt administration's failure to aid European Jewry. Dickstein served eleven consecutive terms in the House of Representatives, from 1923 through 1945, and chaired the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization...
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William E. Dodd (1869-1940), a University of Chicago historian, was chosen by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's as ambassador to Germany in June 1933, four months after Adolf Hitler rose to power. The president instructed Dodd that while he could "unofficially" take issue with Nazi Germany's antisemitism,...
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Treasury Department official Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. (1912-1983) was instrumental in exposing the State Department's suppression of news about the Holocaust and obstruction of opportunities for rescue. A graduate of Penn Law School, DuBois began working at the Treasury Department's Foreign Funds Control...
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State Department official James C. Dunn (1890-1979) played a key role in suppressing news about the mass murder of the Jews and obstructing opportunities for rescue. Dunn, an official in the State Department's Division of Political Affairs, was part of the small circle closest to Assistant Secretary...
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