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Leonie Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin on December 10, 1891. She arrived in Sweden as a refugee with her mother on May 16, 1940. Sachs remained in Sweden as a writer and traslator, receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. Nelly Sachs died in Stockholm on May 12, 1970.

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Nelly Sachs : studio portrait by Anna Riwkin, Leo Baeck Institute, F 13738.