Nelly was granted Swedish citizenship in 1952 but suffered a number of nervous breakdowns after her mother's death and would spend time in a mental institution, tormented by hallucinations of Nazi persecution.
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literatures in 1966 after publishing a number of poetry collections.
She died in Stockholm on May 12, 1970 aged 78, after battling intestinal cancer.
Nelly Sachs' famous poems, plays and poetry collections
Nelly Sachs' most famous poem is called O Die Schornsteine, which translates to O the Chimneys. It addresses the concentration camps where many of her Jewish relatives were killed.
Most of her works, such as her poetry collections In Death's House, published in 1947, and Darkening of the Stars in 1949, expressed the grief of the Jewish people during the Holocaust
Through her work Sachs became an unofficial spokesperson for the pain of the Jewish people.
Her most well-known play, Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel, published in 1951, expanded on these ideas of grief and suffering.
