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Born into a Russian-German Mennonite community in Ukraine she grew up trilingual (German, Russian and Ukrainian) in the then-Soviet Union.
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Ingrid Rimland
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Her family had been wealthy prior to the Russian revolution, but the community faced persecution under the communist regime due to their pacifist beliefs and heritage. In 1941, when she was five years old, her father was deported to a Siberian concentration camp by the Soviets and she never saw him again. Most of her family was exterminated by the Soviets.
Fleeing the Red Army, she ended up in Germany with her mother in 1945.
She moved to Canada in 1960 and to the United States in 1967, becoming a United States citizen. In the United States, she gained a doctorate in education in 1979 and worked as an educational psychologist in California public schools, specializing in special education and migrant education for children, and simultaneously running a private practice in child psychology.
In her third, and least known, book, Demon Doctor, Rimland tells of her quest to find Josef Mengele in the 1980s with the help of Simon Wiesenthal. She became involved in right-wing causes, acting as the ostensible manager of Zündel"s controversial website.
