Nelly Sachs

A poet o f Pain and the Love of Belonging

Abstract

This article portrays some possible approaches to pain and love caused by the sense of belonging of Jewish women who belonged to the generation that went through the Holocaust and who suffered in their lives the stigmas left by circumstances of cultural uprooting, without, however, having gone through through concentration camps, which proves that the devastating and traumatic irradiation of Nazism went beyond the perceptible limits of common sense, reaching an entire generation of Jews, even those who managed to escape the Holocaust alive.