U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft (1889-1953), Republican of Ohio, played a leading role in congressional initiatives promoting the rescue of Jewish refugees and the creation of a Jewish state. Taft opposed the 1939 Wagner-Rogers bill to admit 20,000 German Jewish refugee children, arguing that the United...
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Statements made by William Temple (1881-1944), the Archbishop of Canterbury, in support of rescuing Jewish refugees played a role in the debate in the United States over rescue policy. In a series of public speeches, articles, and letters to the British press during 1942-1943, Temple expressed both...
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U.S. Senator Elbert D. Thomas (1883-1953), Democrat of Utah and former Mormon missionary, was an outspoken advocate of rescue of Jews from the Holocaust. Thomas grew up in Salt Lake City in the late 1800s, where his family experienced prejudice because of their Mormon beliefs, an experience that...
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Journalist Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) spoke out vigorously against the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. As chief of the Berlin bureau of the New York Post in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Thompson witnessed the rise of Nazism and reported extensively on the mistreatment of Germany's Jews. Thompson,...
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