6. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Carl Rubinstein, February 17, 1939, personal documents, RRC, USHMM.
7. RR diary, May 4, 1939.
8. Email from Angela Ruider (of the Zurich City Archives) to author, September 9, 2014.
9. RR diary, May 4, 1939.
10. RR diary, May 8, 1939.
11. RR diary, May 8, 1939.
12. RR diary, April 25, 1939.
13. RR diary, April 25, 1939.
14. RR diary, May 1, 1939.
15. RR diary, May 8, 1939.
CHAPTER 7
1. RR diary, April 20, 1939.
2. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Rose Rubinstein, July 15, 1939, RRC, USHMM.
3. RR diary, April 24, 1939.
4. Ruth Rappaport, autobiographical essay, Ruth Rappaport Papers, Special Collections, collection no. 5797, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington (location hereafter cited as RRP, UW).
5. Email from Bettina Roncelli Büchel (archivist at Zentralbibliothek Zürich [Zurich Central Library]) to author, October 8, 2014.
6. Kenneth D. Ackerman, Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016), p. 139.
7. RR diary, April 30, 1939.
8. RR diary, April 25, 1939.
9. RR oral history, USHMM.
10. RR diary, April 23, 1939.
11. RR diary, April 20, 1939.
12. RR diary, April 23, 1939.
13. RR diary, April 30, 1939.
14. RR diary, April 25, 1939.
15. RR diary, April 23, 1939.
16. RR diary, September 16, 1939.
17. Sara Kadosh, “Jewish Refugee Children in Switzerland, 1939–1950,” in Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, ed. John K. Roth, Elisabeth Maxwell, Margot Levy, and Wendy Whitworth (New York City: Palgrave, 2001), p. 282; summons for Ruth Rappaport to appear at the Stadtpolizei [city police] Zurich, February 13, 1939, personal documents, RRC, USHMM.
18. Letter from American consulate in Zurich to Ruth Rappaport, February 13, 1939, personal documents, RRC, USHMM.
19. Letter from Romanian consulate in Zurich to Ruth Rappaport, April 14, 1939, personal documents, RRC, USHMM.