1. Sealth [Broadway High School yearbook], (Seattle: Broadway High School, 1941), RRP, UW; RR diary, May 28, 1940.
2. RR oral history, USHMM.
3. RR diary, May 28, 1940.
4. RR oral history, USHMM.
5. Quintard Taylor, “Swing the Door Wide: World War II Wrought a Profound Transformation in Seattle’s Black Community,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History 9, no. 2 (Summer 1995), http://www.washingtonhistory.org/files/library/swing-door-wide.pdf.
6. RR diary, December 17, 1939.
7. RR diary, December 20, 1939; “Hilde Schocken Mann” (obituary), Seattle Times, August 14–15, 2007, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=hilde-schocken-mann&pid=92601843.
8. RR diary, January 10, 1940; “Miss Rose Rubinstein Is Married,” Seattle Daily Times, February 19, 1940, p. 8.
9. RR diary, February 19, 1940.
10. RR diary, January 19, 1940.
11. RR diary, February 15, 1940.
12. RR diary, February 6, 1940.
13. RR diary, March 4, 1940.
14. RR diary, January 10, 1941.
15. Ra’hel Bluwstein, Flowers of Perhaps: A Bilingual Edition of Selected Poems, trans. Robert Friend, with Shimon Sandbank (New Milford, CT: Toby Press, 2008), pp. vii–xviii.
16. John Douglas Marshall, Place of Learning, Place of Dreams: A History of the Seattle Public Library (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004), pp. 62–79.
17. RR diary, January 12, 1941.
18. Finger waves were a hairstyle popular in the 1940s.
19. RR diary, January 12, 1941.
CHAPTER 10
1. RR diary, January 1, 1941.
2. RR diary, January 1 and 25, 1951.
3. RR diary, November 25, 1940.
4. Sealth [Broadway High School yearbook], (Seattle: Broadway High School, 1941), RRP, UW.
5. RR diary, July 21, 1941.
6. RR diary, August 29, 1941.
7. RR diary, September 21, 1941.
8. RR diary, September 2, 1942.
9. Record 5346, Mendel and Chaja Rappaport, Jewish Transmigration Bureau Deposit Cards, 1939–1954, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives.
10. RR oral history, USHMM.