Choose another writer in this calendar: by birthday from the
calendar. ||Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)| German poet and dramatist,
who became a spokesperson for her fellow Jews of experiences in
the Nazi death camps. In 1966 Nelly Sachs shared the Nobel Prize
for Literature with the novelist S.Y. Agnon. Sachs spent the
rest of her life in Sweden after escaping from Germany in 1940.
O, der weinenden Kinder Nacht! Leonie Sachs, better known as
Nelly Sachs, was born in Berlin into a middle-class Jewish
family. She was the only child of the inventor and industrialist
William Sachs and Margareta (Karger) Sachs. The family was
religiously liberal and cultured and considered itself wholly at
home in Germany. They belonged to the Berlin Jewish community,
but did not celebrate Jewish holidays. Sachs did not read and
write Hebrew and she did not speak Yiddish. Before entering the
Berliner Höhere Töchterschule, Sachs was educated by a private
teacher and she also received instructions in Judaism. Sachs
studied music, dance, a