The blog "This Day in Jewish History" reminds us, 117 years ago today, Nelly Sachs was born:
"Birthdate of Nelly Sachs. Born in Berlin, Sachs was a German poet and dramatist who was transformed by the Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Sachs found sanctuary in Sweden in 1940. When, with Shmuel Yosef Agnon, she was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, she observed that Agnon represented Israel whereas "I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people." She passed away in 1970 and was buried in Sweden."
You can see some of Nelly Sachs' Berlin in our tours to the Jewish West Berlin and to "Jewish Switzerland"; and in the "Classic" Jewish Tour.
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