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She gave her life to save the Jews from the clutches of the Nazis. This burning idealism of hers served as an aspect that greatly influenced on her work as a poet.

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In 1943, Senesh joined the British Army and volunteered to be parachute into Europe. The purpose of this operation was to help the Allied efforts in Europe and establish contact with partisan resistance fighters to aid beleaguered Jewish communities. With the goal of reaching her native Budapest, Senesh parachuted into Yugoslavia in March 1944, and spent three months with Tito’s partisans; also in June 7, 1944, at the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, Senesh crossed the border into Hungary.

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She was caught almost immediately by the Hungarian police, and tortured cruelly and repeatedly over several months. Despite these conditions, Senesh refused to give up any information about her mission. Even the knowledge that her mother was at risk and that she too might be harmed did not compel Senesh to cooperate with the police. Throughout her ordeal she remained steadfast in her courage, and when she was executed by a firing squad on November 7, she refused the blindfold, staring squarely at her executors and her fate. Senesh was only 23 years old.

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Senesh was born July 17, 1921and died on November 7, 1944 was born in Budapest, Hungary as the daughter of an author and journalist. She demonstrated her own literary talent from an early age, and she kept a diary from age 13 until shortly before her death.

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Eli Eli - Hannah Szenes Senesh - Sang in Hebrew & English - Holocaust Remembrance