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3. RR diary, November 2, 1948. The ellipses in this quote are original.
4. RR diary, November 21, 1948.
5. RR diary, undated, circa February 1949.
6. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to the Eisemanns, March 3, 1949, RRC, USHMM.
7. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Esther Elbaum, September 5, 1949, RRC, USHMM; letter from Ruth Rappaport to Lynn Atterman, August 23, 1949, RRC, USHMM.
8. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to the Eisemanns, March 3, 1949, RRC, USHMM. Ruth may have been referring to Kenneth Bilby of the New York Tribune (not Times) and Stephen Rosenfeld of the Washington Post (not the New York Post).
9. RR diary, May 10, 1949. Ruth might be referring to Spencer Irwin, a foreign correspondent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
10. RR oral history, USHMM.
11. RR oral history, USHMM.
12. RR diary, November 21, 1948. This man was probably Canadian pilot George “Lee” Sinclair.
13. RR diary, March 1, 1949.
14. RR diary, undated, circa May 1949.
15. Caitlin Keefe Moran, “In Praise of Difficult Women: The Forgotten Work of Nancy Hale,” The Toast, September 24, 2014, http://the-toast.net/2014/09/23/forgotten-work-on-nancy-hale.
16. RR diary, February 5, 1949.
17. RR diary, April 29, 1949.
18. RR diary, June 5, 1949. The “worsening conditions” she referred to may have been the start of McCarthyism and blacklisting.
19. RR diary, February 24, 1949.
20. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Bartley Crum, October 18, 1950, RRC, USHMM.
21. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Mila, February 11, 1949, RRC, USHMM.
22. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Mila and family, November 7, 1949, RRC, USHMM.
23. Personal memoirs of Sam Rubinstein, undated, Mark Rubinstein personal collection.
24. Ruth Rappaport’s Official Personnel Folders, NARA; RR oral history, USHMM.
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1. Illustration of Ruth Rappaport, Guy Rosner personal collection.
2. Investigation report, 1992, Ruth Rappaport FBI file, 121-HQ-34502.
3. Passport, personal documents, RRC, USHMM.
4. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Chaja, December 15, 1950, RRC, USHMM. This Chaja is not Ruth’s mother nor her mother’s cousin Helena Rubinstein.
5. Rappaport to Chaja, December 15, 1950.
6. Rappaport to Chaja, December 15, 1950.
7. Rappaport to Chaja, December 15, 1950.