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Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs, (10 December 1891, Berlin – 12 May 1970, Stockholm) 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. Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950); other works include the poems Zeichen im Sand (1962) and "Verzauberung (1970), and the collections of poetry "In den Wohnungen des Todes" (1947), "Flucht und Verwandlung" (1959), "Fahrt ins Staublose" (1961), and "Suche nach Lebenden" (1971).
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