Nelly Sachs

Overview

Nelly Sachs born Berlin, Germany December 10, 1891 (d. 1970). German Jewish poet, playwright; awarded Nobel Literature Prize, 1966; awarded German Book Peace Prize, 1965; exiled 1940.

Quotations

O the night of the weeping children!
O the night of the children branded for death!
Sleep may not enter here.
Terrible nursemaids
Have usurped the place of mothers. . . 
(1947; photo Nobel 1966, wikicommons pd)