Stella Rotenberg

Montag, 27. März 1916

Leeds

Stella Rotenberg (born Stella Siegmann: 27 March 1916 – 3 July 2013) was a German language writer of prose and lyric poetry, originally from Vienna. For reasons of race and politics she was obliged to abandon her university medical studies in 1938 and to flee the country. She was keen to emigrate to England, but the necessary visa was not forthcoming and in March 1939 she fled, instead, to the Netherlands. Her brother Erwin had escaped to Sweden the previous year. For her Jewish parents, who were by this time beyond working age, there seemed to be no hope of admission to a foreign country: they remained behind. Stella Siegmann's long-awaited visa from the British was finally received in August 1939 and she moved to England where, a few months later, she married a fellow Austrian exile call