She attended the Catholic Lyceum St. Michaels-Kloster in Paderborn, a girls' school run by Augustinian choir women, from 1924 to the eleventh grade in 1935.

Due to the increasing antisemitic hostility, she became intensively involved with Zionism from 1933 onwards and decided, against her parents' wishes, to drop out of school and emigrate to Palestine.

In 1935, to prepare for her emigration to Palestine, she was at the Hakhshara training center Gut Winkel near Spreenhagen, where she, among other things, Learned to grow fruit and vegetables.

In 1939 she graduated from high school and worked as a group leader in a Hakhshara camp in Świbinki (German name: Schniebinchen), in Lower Lusatia.

In November 1939, Jenny Aloni made it to Palestine via Trieste with a transport of Jewish children and young people.

The fifteen-year-old consciously experienced the day the National Socialists came to power as a break: “That evening the bridge broke between her and the others.”[4] She usually only describes the loss of her family members in hints.

On the other hand, Jenny Aloni's work deals with the integration of people from different backgrounds in Israel and the Jewish-Palestinian conflict.

Her first novel Cypresses Don't Break (German: Zypressen zerbrechen nicht) was praised by Max Brod and was reprinted after just one year.

[3] Jenny Aloni was a long-time member of the Association of German-Speaking Writers in Israel (VdSI), which was founded in Tel Aviv in 1975 by the journalist Meir Marcell Faerber.

[8] The University of Paderborn also has the Jenny Aloni Center, which supports doctoral students, postdocs and junior professors.