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White, Joshua, dir. Seinfeld. “The Library,” season 3, episode 5. Written by Larry David. Aired October 16, 1991, on NBC.
VIDEOS
Department of the Army Overseas Recruitment Center. “Special Services: Where the Action Is.” Recruitment video. 1970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyqtiosYYw.
WEBSITES
Ancestry.com
“Emil Carlebach—Lebenslauf.” politische Häftlinge im Gefängnis Hameln [Political prisoners in Hameln prison], Hamelns Geschichte—abseits vom Rattenfänger [Hameln’s story: away from the pied piper]. http://www.gelderblom-hameln.de/zuchthaus/nszeit/gefaengnis/carlebach.html.
Kadosh, Sara. “Nettie Sutro-Katzenstein.” In Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women’s Archive, online edition. Accessed October 8, 2018. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sutro-katzenstein-nettie.
“Mission, Vision & Programs.” Amara. Accessed October 25, 2018. https://amaraputskidsfirst.org/mission-vision-programs/.
Schoenherr, Steven. “Cold War Spies.” History Department. University of San Diego. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwarspies.html (inactive). Archived on July 23, 2018 at https://web.archive.org/web/20180723184037/http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwarspies.html.
Wawrzyn, Heidemarie. “Leipzig—Introduction.” Destroyed German Synagogues and Communities. http://germansynagogues.com/index.php/synagogues-and-communities?pid=59&sid=811:leipzig-introduction.
Notes
PROLOGUE
1. Petula Dvorak, “Proof of Gifts That Come When Generations Mingle,” Washington Post, November 23, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112207165.html.
2. Ruth Rappaport oral history, interview by Gail Schwartz (accession number 2010.374), Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, https:/
/collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42274 (hereafter cited as RR oral history, USHMM; additional sources from the Ruth Rappaport Collection, 2012.431.1, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are hereafter cited with RRC, USHMM).
3. Seinfeld, “The Library,” season 3, episode 5, directed by Joshua White, written by Larry David, aired October 16, 1991, on NBC.
CHAPTER 1
1. Mendel Rappaport records, International Tracing Service, OBE-RIW/1526, USHMM. This area would later be ceded to Romania and is now in the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine.
2. RR oral history, USHMM.
3. Mendel Rappaport city registration form, Saxony State Archives, Leipzig, Germany.
4. Postcard from Mendel Rappaport to his parents, November 14, 1918, Guy Rosner personal collection.
5. Mendel Rappaport city registration form, Saxony State Archives; emails from Guy Rosner to author, March 9, 2017, and March 11, 2017.
6. Akten Polizeiamts der Stadt Leipzig, Joel Leib Rubinstein file, 1/79 STA Leipzig Polizeipräsidium Leipzig –S- Nr. 3207, Saxony State Archives, Leipzig, Germany.
7. Mark Rubinstein, in discussion with the author, July 5, 2013. Mark said his father, Sam (Carl’s son), told him this story but later denied it.
8. Restitution documentation records, March 24, 1959, RRC, USHMM; marriage certificate for Mendel Rappaport and Chaja Rubinstein, October 4, 1922, Saxony State Archives, Leipzig, Germany.
9. Heidemarie Wawrzyn, “Leipzig—Introduction,” Destroyed German Synagogues and Communities (website), accessed October 8, 2018, http://germansynagogues.com/index.php/synagogues-and-communities?pid=59&sid=811:leipzig-introduction.
10. Robert Allen Willingham, Jews in Leipzig, Germany under Nazism, Communism and Democracy: Politics and Identity in the 20th Century (Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press, 2011), pp. 17–21.
11. Willingham, Jews in Leipzig, p. 22.
12. “Leipzig—4 Apels Garten (Originally 6–8 Otto Schiller Strasse), Ez Chaim Synagogue,” Destroyed German Synagogues and Communities (website), accessed October 8, 2018, http://germansynagogues.com/index.php/synagogues-and-communities?pid=64&sid=812:leipzig-4-apels-garten-originally-6-8-otto-schiller-strasse-ez-chaim-synagogue.
13. Ruth Rappaport diary, January 12, 1941, Ruth Rappaport Collection (RRC), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (hereafter cited, along with the date of entry, as RR diary).