# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelly-sachs
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:34.056Z

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name: "Nelly Sachs"
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description: "She turned the unspeakable into verse. A German-Jewish poet who escaped the Nazi machinery by one slim margin, Sachs spent the rest of her life giving language to a grief that had none—and won the Nobel Prize for it."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Berlin in 1891, Nelly Sachs lived a quiet literary life until the Nazis made her name a liability. The rise of the Third Reich didn't just threaten her—it shattered the world she knew and drove her into exile. She fled to Sweden, where survival became the raw material for a new kind of poetry. Her 1947 collection "In den Wohnungen des Todes" marked her as a voice for Jewish suffering, followed by works like "Flucht und Verwandlung" (1959) and "Fahrt ins Staublose" (1961). Her play "Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels" (1950) confronted the same wound from the stage. In 1966, the Nobel committee recognized what she'd done: made a poetic idiom for catastrophe. She died in Sweden in 1970.