Today, when millions of users are doing a quick Google search, they might notice a black and white doodle of a typewriter.
That’s because Google is honoring the 127th birthday of Jewish poet and Nobel Prize winner Nelly Sachs. Sachs, a German-born Jewish Swedish refugee documented her fear through poetry during the Holocaust and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1966 from her moving work.
Her poetry on the Shoah remains as one of the most powerful forms of literature that recount the Shoah.
The doodle was illustrated by German/Finnish artist Daniel Stolle, and, according to Stolle, can be seen in on Google in Sweden, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Ireland and Bulgaria.
Not only was Sachs the first German woman to receive a Nobel Prize in literature, she continued to earn prestigious awards including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1965.
“In spite of all the horrors of the past,” she said upon receiving the award. “I believe in you.”
Google Doodles tweeted Monday about the doodle saying, “A Nobel Prize recipient whose profound poetry about the Holocaust—such as the ‘O the Chimneys’ poem—made her a pioneering figure in German literature.”
A #GoogleDoodle for #NellySachs, A Nobel Prize recipient whose profound poetry about the Holocaust—such as the "O the Chimneys" poem—made her a pioneering figure in German literature.
Learn more about her life & legacy → https://t.co/23zVxlaeGm pic.twitter.com/kvgVoIKnvI
— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) December 10, 2018
