For Sachs, a German-Jewish writer exiled to Sweden during World War II, Israel was a community bound by collective suffering and the memory of those murdered in the Shoah, which had become a possible homeland for those displaced by war and exile, a ???zenith of longing,??? where ???wonder is heaped/like a storm upon your head,/breaks in your time???s mountains of pain??? (O the Chimneys, 1967).