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Nelly Sachs Biography and Timeline

Follow Nelly Sachs through 1 dated historical records for Sweden.

Nelly Sachs, historical timeline

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1947

In the Habitations of Death Published

Author · Arts / Literature

Nelly Sachs published In den Wohnungen des Todes, a collection of poems responding to the Holocaust. The work transformed mourning and displacement into an intensely symbolic poetic language.

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