Jenny-Aloni birthplace

The important German-Israeli writer Jenny Aloni was born on September 7, 1917 in the midwifery school in Paderborn and grew up as the daughter of Jewish parents, the merchant Moritz Rosenbaum and his wife Henny, in the residential and commercial building at Bachstrasse 2, which no longer exists today.

Jenny Rosenbaum began writing as a teenager. Against her parents' wishes, she decided in the mid-1930s to prepare for emigration to the British Mandate of Palestine by attending a Hachshara training school in the face of increasing Nazi terror. In Berlin, she made contact with Zionist-Socialist youth organizations. She managed to escape to Palestine in 1939. Her parents and sister Irma were deported to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz in 1942 and fell victim to the Nazi racial madness. In 1948, Jenny Rosenbaum married Esra Aloni, who had also emigrated to Palestine, and from 1957 the family lived in Ganei Yehuda near Tel Aviv. Her literary work, which began to emerge in the mid-1950s, has strong autobiographical references. In addition to several important literary prizes, she was awarded the Paderborn City Culture Prize in 1967. Jenny Aloni died on September 30, 1993 and is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished writers of her generation. Her literary estate is kept in the archives of the University of Paderborn.