Overview

• The City of Fürth confirmed her death on September 5, reporting the passing of the Fürth-born author and reporter at age 101.
• Oberbürgermeister Thomas Jung called her one of the most important figures in Fürth’s history and expressed gratitude for her life’s work.
• Born in 1924 to a Jewish family in Fürth, she fled Nazi persecution to South Africa in 1936.
• She campaigned against apartheid, reported for international newspapers, and authored numerous books on southern Africa.
• Her honors included Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit and Fürth’s Goldenes Kleeblatt in 2007, and she remained active publicly with a 2023 address to North Rhine-Westphalia’s parliament on Holocaust Remembrance Day.