43. Letter from Hans Lemm (of the American Zionist Emergency Council) to Ruth Rappaport, August 11, 1944, RRC, USHMM.
44. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Alice Bernstein Jacobson, October 7, 1944, RRC, USHMM.
45. Letter from Alice Bernstein Jacobson to Ruth Rappaport and Marian Elyn, January 22, 1945, RRC, USHMM.
46. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Esther Elbaum, circa March 1945, RRC, USHMM.
47. “Request That Applicant Appear with Witnesses,” Immigration and Naturalization Service, February 21, 1945, RRC, USHMM.
48. RR oral history, USHMM.
49. RR oral history, USHMM.
50. RR oral history, USHMM.
CHAPTER 12
1. “Now Japan! City Works on V-E Day,” Seattle Times, May 8, 1945, p. 1; “Victorious News Fails to Touch Off Riotous Celebrations Here,” Seattle Times, May 8, 1945, p. 8.
2. DW staff, “Leipzig Celebrates Long Literary History,” DW, 2008, http://www.dw.com/en/leipzig-celebrates-long-literary-history/a-3185443.
3. Letter from Alice Bernstein Jacobson to Ruth Rappaport, May 31, 1945, RRC, USHMM.
4. Report from FBI special agent in charge (SAC), Seattle, to FBI director, October 17, 1951, Ruth Rappaport FBI file.
5. Phillip Deery, “‘A Blot Upon Liberty’: McCarthyism, Dr. Barsky and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee,” American Communist History 8, no. 2 (2009), pp. 167–96.
6. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Esther Elbaum, June 1, 1945, RRC, USHMM.
7. Letter from Esther Elbaum to Ruth Rappaport, June 5, 1945, RRC, USHMM.
8. Mendel Rappaport records, International Tracing Service, OBE-RIW/1526, USHMM.
9. Aileen Hicks Finley, “War Service Jobs Continue; Women Face Big Peace Tasks,” Seattle Times, August 19, 1945, p. 2.
10. USS Annual Volunteer Recognition Day program, October 28, 1945, RRC, USHMM.
CHAPTER 13
1. Ruth Rappaport résumé, July 1948, personal documents, RRC, USHMM.
2. Masthead, The Transcript, March 4, 1946, p. 4.
3. Email from Ruth Rappaport to Sig Cohen, February 7, 2008, Sig Cohen personal collection.
4. Ruth Rappaport University of Washington academic transcript, RRP, UW.
5. American Society of Civil Engineers, “In Memoriam: Dr. Mohammad Gamal Mostafa,” Orange County Branch newsletter, August 2011, http://www.asceoc.org/newsletter/article/in_memoriam_mostafa.
6. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to the Washington State Press Club, July 31, 1946, RRP, UW.
7. “Ale & Quail Society Active in Host of Press Club Affairs,” Gentlemen of the Press, the newsletter of the Washington State Press Club, October 1951, http://www.jackgordon.org/WashPressClub/AleQuailHistory.htm.
8. Letter from Dudley Brown to Ruth Rappaport, August 21, 1946, RRP, UW.
CHAPTER 14
1. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Jüdische Gemeinde zu Leipzig, July 8, 1946, Leipzig Jewish Community records (1933–1945), RG-14.035M, reel 41, USHMM.