A Well-Read Woman

14. “Jewish Girls Launch New Study Class,” Seattle Times, November 8, 1942.

15. Ruth Rappaport résumé, July 1948, personal documents file, RRC, USHMM.

16. RR diary, September 24, 1942.

17. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Mendel and Chaja Rappaport, October 8, 1942, RRC,

USHMM.

18. Letter from Mendel and Chaja Rappaport to Ruth Rappaport, January 7, 1943, RRC, USHMM.

19. Willingham, Jews in Leipzig, p. 118.

20. Ellen Bertram, Menschen ohne Grabstein: Gedenkbuch für die jüdischen Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung aus Leipzig [People with no gravestone: memorial book for the Leipzig Jewish victims of National Socialist persecution] (Leipzig: Passage-Verlag, 2011), p. 288.

21. Correspondence between Ruth Rappaport and her parents, 1938–1946, RRC, USHMM.

22. “Europe’s Jews Face Extermination in ’43,” The Transcript, April 26, 1943.

23. “Junior Hadassah,” The Transcript, May 24, 1943.

24. “Junior Hadassah Over Subscribes,” The Transcript, July 5, 1943.

25. “Zionist Youths Plan Breakfast for Levinthal,” Seattle Times, July 27, 1943.

26. Minutes of Junior Hadassah National Board Meeting, May 13, 1943, records of Hadassah, RG 15, box 9, Center for Jewish History.

27. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Naomi Chertoff, October 18, 1943, RRC, USHMM.

28. Junior Hadassah convention program, 1943, RRC, USHMM.

29. Letters from Ruth Reicher to Ruth Rappaport, 1944, RRC, USHMM.

30. Letters from Zeanna Berliner to Ruth Rappaport, November 21 and 29, 1943, RRC, USHMM.

31. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Caroline Ruelf, March 13, 1944, RRC, USHMM.

32. Ruth Rappaport résumé, July 1948, personal documents, RRC, USHMM; “Mission, Vision & Programs,” Amara (website), https://amaraputskidsfirst.org/mission-vision-programs/.

33. Anne Swensson, “King County Baby Adoptions Increased 300 Pct. by War,” Seattle Times, February 10, 1944.

34. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Esther Elbaum, March 1945, RRC, USHMM.

35. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Caroline Ruelf, March 13, 1944, RRC, USHMM.

36. Rappaport to Ruelf, March 13, 1944.

37. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Ruth Reicher, March 1, 1944, RRC, USHMM.

38. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Caroline Ruelf, March 13, 1944, RRC, USHMM.

39. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Esther Elbaum, July 1944, RRC, USHMM.

40. Rappaport to Elbaum, July 1944.

41. Rappaport to Elbaum, July 1944.

42. Letter from Ruth Rappaport to Naomi Chertoff, September 14, 1944, RRC, USHMM. One reason for American support of Zionism was to ensure access to oil supplies in the Middle East.