11. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Victor Bloom, February 23, 1948, RRC, USHMM; letter from Ruth Rappaport to W. Zev Bronner, February 3, 1948, RRC, USHMM.
12. RR oral history, USHMM.
13. RR oral history, USHMM.
14. Letters from Ruth Rappaport, January–April 1948, RRC, USHMM.
15. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Phyllis and Jim, March 9, 1948, RRC, USHMM.
16. RR diary, April 25, 1948.
17. RR diary, April 30, 1946.
18. Richard Whelan, Robert Capa: A Biography (New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), pp. 238–69.
19. Email from Ruth Rappaport to Sig Cohen, February 7, 2008, Sig Cohen personal collection.
20. RR diary, May 10, 1949; RR diary, undated, circa May 1949.
21. RR diary, May 2, 1948.
22. RR diary, May 6, 1948.
23. RR diary, May 6, 1948.
24. RR diary, May 2 and 6, 1948.
25. RR diary, May 15, 1948.
26. RR diary, May 15, 1948.
27. RR diary, May 16, 1948.
28. RR diary, May 23, 1948.
29. RR diary, May 28, 1948; RR diary May 31, 1948; RR diary June 2, 1948; RR diary June 4, 1948.
30. RR diary, May 28, 1948.
31. RR diary, May 28, 1948.
32. RR diary, June 13, 1948.
33. RR diary, May 23, 1948.
34. RR diary, June 4, 1948.
35. RR diary, June 4, 1948. Ruth also seems to have used this word—Protektia—to refer to nepotism.
36. RR diary, April 25, 1948.
37. RR diary, April 25, 1948.
38. RR diary, May 23, 1948.
39. RR diary, May 23, 1948.
40. RR diary, June 8, 1948.