Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers

Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers 

Dorothea Grater Minskoff (1910-1986) was born in Pennsylvania, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s law school in 1934, and married fellow graduate Emanuel Minskoff. There were very few women in law school at the time, and when she was unable to find a job as an attorney, she worked as a secretary for the American Bankers Association. Through her classmate Josiah Dubois, she and Emanuel were recruited to be a part of the Nuremburg prosecution. She served as part of the prosecution team for the Ministries trial in the late 1940s, and then worked at the Justice Department until the late 1960s. Emanuel E. Minskoff (1909-1965) was born in New York City, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s law school in 1934, and married fellow graduate Dorothea Grater. Minskoff practiced as a private attorney from 1934 to 1942 in New York City and then moved to Washington, DC, to work as an international finance attorney with the Treasury Department. He served as a legal advisor to the 1944 conference at Bretton Woods and helped draft the agreement for the International Monetary Fund. In 1945 he was appointed chief of the Individual Assets Investigation Branch of the Finance Division of the U.S. Forces in Europe. Through his classmate Josiah Dubois, he and Dorothea were recruited to be a part of the Nuremburg prosecution. Beginning in 1947, he served the War Department as part of the prosecution team for the I.G. Farben trial. He returned to the Treasury Department and worked to freeze Chinese assets in America and block remittances to and trade with China, becoming chief enforcement officer of the Foreign Assets Control Division in 1956. 

Emanuel E. and Dorothea G. Minskoff papers