{"id":29276,"date":"2023-04-27T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/?p=29276"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:06:37","slug":"literature-laureate-nelly-sachs-suitcase-donated-to-the-nobel-prize-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/literature-laureate-nelly-sachs-suitcase-donated-to-the-nobel-prize-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature laureate Nelly Sachs\u2019 suitcase donated to the Nobel Prize Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"school_subject":[],"school_grade":[],"class_list":["post-29276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"acf":{"ingress":"A gift with a powerful story behind it has been presented to the Nobel Prize Museum. Nelly Sachs\u2019 suitcase reminds us of Europe during World War II and the escape of a mother and daughter from Nazi terror in Berlin to Sweden. The contents of the suitcase were the only things they carried with them. The suitcase has now been gifted to the museum by Swedish writer Aris Fioretos, who has owned it for the past fifteen years. ","info":[{"title":"Press release ","link":""},{"title":"26 April 2023","link":""}],"post_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
Nelly Sachs was a German Jew, which meant that her life was\u00a0in danger\u00a0after the Nazi seizure of power in January 1933. After being\u00a0terrorised\u00a0by SA\u00a0stormtroopers and\u00a0subjected to looting\u00a0and\u00a0restrictions on her life, she managed to escape with her mother on one of the last civilian flights from Berlin in May 1940.\u00a0All that they took\u00a0with them\u00a0was\u00a0what they were\u00a0wearing\u00a0and\u00a0the contents of\u00a0the\u00a0suitcase\u00a0that has now been\u00a0donated\u00a0to the museum.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"single_image_block","image":{"ID":29277,"id":29277,"title":"NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG","filename":"NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-scaled.jpg","filesize":430067,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/literature-laureate-nelly-sachs-suitcase-donated-to-the-nobel-prize-museum\/nellysachsobjectdonation_10_standardjpeg\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"Elin Granberg (Nobel Prize Museum) and Aris Fioretos. \u00a9 Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Nanaka Adachi.","name":"nellysachsobjectdonation_10_standardjpeg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29276,"date":"2023-04-27 08:58:53","modified":"2023-04-27 08:59:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"380x305":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_10_StandardJPEG-1-scaled.jpg","380x305-width":570,"380x305-height":380}}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
Aris Fioretos\u00a0received\u00a0the\u00a0suitcase 15\u00a0years ago from translator Margaretha Holmqvist, who was a close friend of Nelly Sachs. In 2010\u20132011, Fioretos\u00a0served as the editor of the four-volume collected works of Nelly Sachs (Werke<\/em>),\u00a0published\u00a0by Suhrkamp\u00a0in an annotated edition in Germany. In connection with the publication,\u00a0there was\u00a0a\u00a0large\u00a0exhibition about Sachs\u2019\u00a0life and works,\u00a0in which the\u00a0suitcase\u00a0was\u00a0displayed.<\/p>\n \u201cOne afternoon Margaretha invited me down to her basement,\u201d\u00a0says Fioretos.\u00a0\u201cIn\u00a0her\u00a0storage\u00a0space\u00a0was the\u00a0suitcase, slightly dusty and with a broken strap. It was\u00a0cleaned up\u00a0and, of course,\u00a0was of\u00a0exemplary\u00a0importance in\u00a0the exhibition. Now the\u00a0suitcase will find a home at\u00a0the Nobel Prize Museum, which can retell Sachs\u2019\u00a0story.\u00a0This is a fine\u00a0way to take responsibility and preserve memories.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"single_image_block","image":{"ID":29279,"id":29279,"title":"NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG","filename":"NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-scaled.jpg","filesize":392605,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/literature-laureate-nelly-sachs-suitcase-donated-to-the-nobel-prize-museum\/nellysachsobjectdonation_12_standardjpeg\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"\u00a9 Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Nanaka Adachi.","name":"nellysachsobjectdonation_12_standardjpeg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":29276,"date":"2023-04-27 08:59:36","modified":"2023-04-27 08:59:51","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"380x305":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NellySachsObjectdonation_12_StandardJPEG-2-scaled.jpg","380x305-width":570,"380x305-height":380}}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":" From a young age,\u00a0Nelly Sachs was fascinated by\u00a0Swedish novelist and 1909\u00a0literature laureate Selma Lagerl\u00f6f, and the two\u00a0were in\u00a0contact\u00a0by\u00a0letter. Selma Lagerl\u00f6f helped Nelly Sachs\u00a0to\u00a0escape from Berlin. Several\u00a0members\u00a0of Nelly Sachs\u2019\u00a0immediate family\u00a0became\u00a0victims of the Holocaust. Nazi persecution left deep marks on Sachs\u2019\u00a0psyche and also influenced her writing.<\/p>\n Nelly Sachs\u00a0was awarded\u00a0the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966\u00a0\u201cfor\u00a0her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel\u2019s destiny with touching strength\u201d. She was born on 10 December 1891 in Berlin and died on 12 May 1970 in Stockholm.<\/p>\n For further information please contact:<\/strong><\/b> <\/p>\n
\npress@nobelprize.org<\/a><\/p>\n