Marianne Pennekamp

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.

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. After her retirement, Pennekamp worked in Humboldt County, California as the criminal Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commissioner and on the Child Death Review Committee.

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.

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.