Once confronted by The Holocaust , the Allied Powers reacted slowly . In 1943 , Morgenthau 's Treasury Department approved the World Jewish Congress ' plan to rescue Jews through the use of blocked accounts in Switzerland , but the State Department and the British Foreign Office procrastinated further . Morgenthau and his staff persisted in bypassing State and ultimately confronting Roosevelt in January 1944 with the Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews . He obtained the presidential creation of the United States War Refugee Board ( WRB ) in January 1944 . The Board sponsored the Raoul Wallenberg mission to Budapest and allowed an increasing number of Jews to enter the U.S. in 1944 and 1945 ; as many as 200,000 Jews were saved in this way
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Henry Morgenthau Jr.