Ingrid Rimland
Ingrid Rimland | |
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Born | Molotschna, Ukraine, Soviet Union | May 22, 1936
Died | October 12, 2017 Tennessee, United States | (aged 81)
Occupation | Author and child psychologist |
Nationality | Soviet Union, Russian, Paraguay, United States |
Notable works | The Wanderers |
Spouse | Ernst Zündel (2001–2017, his death) |
Website | |
soaringeaglesgallery |
Ingrid A. Rimland, also known as Ingrid Zündel (May 22, 1936 – October 12, 2017), was an American writer. She wrote several novels based upon her own experiences growing up in a
Biography
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Born into a
In Paraguay, she married and had one son. The family immigrated to
Rimland worked as an educational psychologist in California public schools, specializing in special education and migrant education for children. She later worked in the state as an education consultant and testing specialist.[citation needed]
Literary works
Most of her literary work is autobiographical to various extents. Her 1977 novel The Wanderers traces the decimation of the pacifist Russian Mennonite community during the Russian Revolution, anarchy, famine, the Stalinist purges, escape from Ukraine, and eventual resettlement in the rain forests of Paraguay. Her 1984 book, The Furies and the Flame, is her autobiography as an immigrant and deals with her struggle to raise her handicapped child.
In her third book, Demon Doctor, Rimland recounts her quest to find Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele in the 1980s with the help of Simon Wiesenthal. She had believed that Mengele worked as a doctor in her Paraguayan Mennonite community of Volendam, but was unable to prove this.[5]
Her trilogy Lebensraum was written after she began to deny the Holocaust in the 1990s and is "permeated with anti-Semitism."[5]
Relationship with Ernst Zündel
In September 1994, Rimland first met German-born Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, who was then a resident in Canada, at the twelfth International Revisionist Conference held by the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial organisation.[6] Interviewed by Zündel on his television programs at the time, she said Adolf Hitler “brought into our colonies the values that we had always held dear, namely the family cohesion, the pride in race, which was part of my upbringing.” She founded his website Zundelsite.org from her home in California. Zündel became her second husband in 2001 and the couple moved to Tennessee.[6][7] Around 2011, Rimland produced the film Off Your Knees, Germany! which was about Zündel's two trials in Canada for deliberately publishing fake news about the Holocaust, for which he was ultimately imprisoned and deported.
When Zündel died in August 2017, The New York Times contacted Rimland: "whoever calls will get the same answer from me: I will give no comment because the mainstream media is too biased".[8]
References
- ^ Wilfred Martens, Book review: The Wanderers, Direction, 1979
- ^ "Soaring Eagles Gallery". Soaring Eagles Gallery. November 14, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ^ Klassen, Abraham; Krahn, Cornelius (1956). "Halbstadt (Molotschna Mennonite settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)". Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ^ "Who is IRZ". soaringeaglesgallery.com.
- ^ a b James C. Juhnke, Ingrid Rimland, the Mennonites, and the Demon Doctor, Mennonite Life, vol. 60 no. 1, 2005 Archived March 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Goossen, Ben (May 2, 2019). "The Pacifist Roots of an American Nazi". Boston Review. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
- ^ James C. Juhnke, Ingrid Rimland, the Mennonites, and the Demon Doctor, Mennonite Life, vol. 60 no. 1, 2005
- ^ Chan, Sewell (August 7, 2017). "Ernst Zündel, Holocaust Denier Tried for Spreading His Message, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved July 21, 2020.