Mascha Kaléko

Mascha Kaléko (born Golda Malka Aufen; 7 June 1907, Galicia – died 21 January 1975) was a Jewish poet who wrote in the German language. Her family moved from Galicia to Germany after World War I. In 1938, she managed to emigrate to the USA with her second husband, the composer Chemjo Vinaver, and their one-year-old son Steven. In 1959, she moved to Jerusalem, Israel. Kaléko died in January 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland where she fell ill en route back to Jerusalem from a final visit in Berlin.