Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington, DC, United States, date uncertain. Photograph »

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., accepts a donation of $30,000 (for war planes) from the Jewish War Veterans organization. Washington, DC, United States, 1942. Photograph »

Third meeting of the board of directors of the War Refugee Board. From the left are Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and Executive Director John Pehle. Washington, DC, United States, March 21, 1944. Photograph »

Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. Hull is at the left, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is in the center, and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson is at the right. Washington, DC, United States, March 21, 1944. Photograph »

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., treasury secretary in the Roosevelt administration and later chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, greets Jewish refugees en route from Shanghai to Israel. New York, United States, March 2, 1949. Photograph »