Governmental and scholarly representatives of Sweden, Israel and Germany joined here today in the opening of an exhibit devoted to the life and works of Nelly Sachs, co-winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature. The exhibit, at the Leo Baeck Institute, is to be on display until April 23.
The display traces the life of Miss Sachs in Berlin, pictures her flight from Nazi persecution to Sweden in 1940, and traces her writings, in the German language, until she was honored last December for her “outstanding lyrical and dramatic poetry which, with gripping power, interprets the fate of Israel.”
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