Ruth Rappaport collection

Identifier: irn60579
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn60579

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Peter Bartis, on behalf of the Estate of Ruth Rappaport.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a shoulder patch, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ruth Rappaport before the war in Leipzig, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, during the war in Seattle, Washington, and after the war in the United States, Palestine, Israel, and Japan.

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Ruth Rappaport papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47973
- English
- boxes oversize folders 6 3
- Updated 9 months ago
The Ruth Rappaport papers consists of biographical material, correspondence, diaries, and photographs relating to Ruth Rappaport’s pre-war and wartime experiences fleeing Germany and immigrating to the United States. The collection also includes extensive correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Ruth’s work and travels as a journalist in Palestine and Israel from 1948-1949 preparing for a mission trip and reporting on the Israeli War of Independence. Biographical material includes Ruth’s birth verification, United States passport application and passport, naturalization paperw...
Beige patch embroidered with Czechoslovakia owned by a Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn60580
- English
- overall: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Cloth badge embroidered with Czechoslovakia acquired by Ruth Rappaport, possibly when she worked as a foreign correspondent in Israel from 1948-1950. On November 8, 1938, one night before the Kristallnacht pogrom, Ruth’s non-Jewish neighbors in Leipzig, Germany, warned her parents, Mendel and Helene, not to leave their house the following day. Sixteen year old Ruth went out and witnessed the burning of her synagogue and other brutal acts against the Jewish population. Ruth and her parents soon left for Switzerland. After a few months, Mendel and Helene decided to return to Leipzig, but Ruth...

Ruth Rappaport collection

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Ruth Rappaport papers

Beige patch embroidered with Czechoslovakia owned by a Jewish refugee