Honorable Mr. Morgenthau

Throughout the 1930s?40s, the U.S. kept the influx of European Jewish refugees well below America's immigration quotas. This policy left millions with no haven from the Nazi terror. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.? the only Jewish member of the Cabinet, and a loyal friend of President Roosevelt? saw it all. Finally his conscience, as well as the unexpected influence of an extraordinary woman, drove him to act ? with consequences no one could foresee.