Nelly L. Sachs, the noted Jewish poetess and dramatist, has been awarded the 1965 Peace Prize of the Foundation Beard of the Exchange Association of the German Book Trade. The German-born writer, who fled her native Berlin in 1940, is the first woman to be awarded the prize since it was established in 1951.
After watching her relatives and friends deported to death in the gas chambers, Miss Sachs devoted her major works to the sufferings of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis. Among her books of poetry were “In the Houses of Death,” “Eclipse of the Stars,” “And Nobody Knows More” and “Flight and Transformation.”
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