Suitcase
- ID-nummer
- 2023.003.001
- Titel
- Suitcase
- Objektkategori
- Kläder & assessorer
- Publik beskrivning
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When Nelly Sachs arrived in Sweden in 1940, she had this suitcase with her. It contained only what she could carry when she escaped from Berlin with her mother on one of the last civilian flights during the Second World War. As a Jew, she had been persecuted by the Nazis and realised her life was in danger. The escape was made possible through the concerted efforts of friends. One of the friends who vouched for Nelly Sachs and her mother was Selma Lagerlöf. In her youth, Sachs had been fascinated by Lagerlöf’s stories and had corresponded with her. Nelly Sachs also became a writer. and her poetry and plays often centred on the fate of the Jewish people.
Nelly Sachs gave the suitcase to her friend and translator Margaretha Holmqvist. In 2010, Holmqvist gave it to the author Aris Fioretos, to be included in a major exhibition on Sachs’s life and work in Germany, Switzerland and Stockholm. In 2023, Fioretos donated it to the Nobel Prize Museum. - Location
- Permanent exhibition
- Pristagare
- Nelly Sachs
Part of Suitcase