Nelly Sachs

Nelly Leonie Sachs was born in Berlin on 10 December 1891. A Jewish poet and refugee from Nazi Germany, she escaped with her mother to Sweden in 1940. Her poetry and dramatic writing centered on persecution, exile, Jewish memory and spiritual survival. She shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with S. Agnon and died in Stockholm on 12 May 1970. German-born Swedish Jewish poet and 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. In Jewish World Records, Nelly Sachs is connected to the record “First Jewish Woman to Win a Nobel Prize,” based on the stored achievement of First qualifying Jewish woman Nobel laureate — Nobel Prize in Literature, 1966. On 10 December 1966, German-born Swedish poet Nelly Sachs received the Nobel Prize in Literature, sharing the award with S.