Ruth Rappaport

For the American scientist and vaccine researcher, see Ruth Shoer Rappaport.
Ruth Rappaport
Born(1923-05-27)May 27, 1923
Leipzig, Germany
DiedNovember 17, 2010(2010-11-17) (aged 87)
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLibrarian

Ruth Rappaport (May 27, 1923 – November 17, 2010)[1] was a Jewish-American librarian.[2][3][4] Her mother's cousin was Helena Rubinstein.[2] Rappaport was born in Leipzig, in Saxony to Mendel and Chaja Rappaport. She had two older half-sisters, Mirjam Rappaport Schneider and Clara Rappaport Rosner. She was a foster child in Zurich in 1938, after running away from her parents when she refused to return to Germany.[5] In 1943 her father died in Buchenwald and her mother probably died in Ravensbrueck.[6]

Rappaport obtained an American visa and went to Seattle in 1938 to live with her uncle, Carl Rubinstein. She graduated from Broadway High School.[7]

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Oral history interview with Ruth Rappaport - USHMM Collections Search". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  3. ^ Petula Dvorak (November 23, 2010). "Proof of gifts that come when generations mingle". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  4. ^ Digital.lib.washington.edu
  5. ^ Kate Stewart, A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport (Little A, 2019)
  6. ^ "Photo Archives". Digitalassets.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
  7. ^ "Ruth Rappaport papers, 1946-1957". Retrieved 2020-06-06.