Marianne Pennekamp (May 14, 1924 – December 3, 2021) was a Jewish social worker with a focus on families, children and school social work. As a child she survived the Holocaust, when her family fled from Karlsruhe to Marseille Vichy France in 1935, before immigrating to New York, after her father was released from internment camp.
Biography
Pennekamp was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1924. Her parents were Jules and Lilly Hockenheimer. In 1941, along with her younger brother, the family became refugees from the Nazi regime and lived in Marseille. She has spoken about Hiram Bingham IV helping her and her family escape from Vichy France despite a senior US diplomat banning “his staff to refrain from giving visas to Jewish refugees or helping British POWs.”
Her 17th birthday, May 14, 1941, was spent on the SS Winnipeg in Casablanca’s harbor. After traveling to Trinidad, then a British colony, she was able to travel to New York City where she met Alfred “Henk” Pennekamp. He was raised Catholic and was 19 years older than herself.
She spent twenty five years working for the Oakland City Schools as a social worker and taught at UC Berkeley and Humboldt State. After her retirement, Pennekamp worked in Humboldt County, California as the criminal Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commissioner and on the Child Death Review Committee.
Education
She attended University of California, Berkeley for her bachelor’s and MSW (1954) degrees before getting a DSW from the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare in 1975.
Awards and honors
Pennekamp was honored by the Humboldt branch of American Association of University Women (AAUW) as a Women’s History Month Honoree. UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare awarded her a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999.
Legacy
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt has established a scholarship in her name.
Selected publications
Pennekamp co-authored two books - Collaboration in School Guidance: A Creative Approach to Pupil Personnel Work (1970) and Social Work Practice; Toward A Child, Family, School, Community Perspective (2nd edition, 2002).
- SARVIS, MARY A., and MARIANNE PENNEKAMP. “Collaboration in School Guidance: Task-Oriented Guidance And Its Structure.” Child Welfare, vol. 49, no. 9, 1970, pp. 502–08. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45393186. Accessed 22 Sep. 2022.
References
- ^ "OBITUARY: Marianne Pennekamp, 1924-2021". Lost Coast Outpost. December 9, 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Marianne Pennekamp". California Mews. NASW. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- Guilfoil, Jackson (5 December 2021). "Humboldt County children's advocate, Holocaust survivor, dies at 97". MediaNews Group. Times Standard. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ""Don't Help Jews or British POWs," U.S. Diplomat Ordered Staff in 1940". History News Network. May 25, 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- Hartridge, Debbie (February 2017). "Marianne Pennekamp: LWVHC 2017 Civic Contribution Award Recipient" (PDF). The Voter Newsletter LWV of Humboldt. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Award: Past Honorees". UC Berkeley School of Social Work. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- "Past Women's History Month Honorees". AAUW Humboldt CA Beanch. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- "New Scholarship: Dr. Marianne Pennekamp Memorial Scholarship". Cal Poly Humboldt. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- "Review of Social Work Practice: Toward a Child, Family, School, Community Perspective, by Edith M. Freeman and Marianne Pennekamp". Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 22 September 2022.