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Hannah Senesh was a trained paratrooper that was trained to rescue Jews during the holocaust.  She was born in Budapest, Hungary on July 17, 1921. She showed extreme literary talent throughout her life and pursued poetry at a young age. In 1939 she left Hungary for Eretz Yisrael. She started off at an agriculture school then shortly after transfer to Kibbutz Sdot Yam, where she wrote a lot of her poetry and a play about life in Kibbutz.

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She was caught almost as soon as she got into Hungary by the Hungarian police. She was tortured cruelly and repeatedly over the next several months that she was captive. Despite what was happening to her, she refused to spill the beans about anything including her mission. Even with the knowledge that her mother was at risk for endangerment as well as herself didn’t compel her to cooperate with the police at all.

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Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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Among Israel's most important heroes is Hannah Senesh, who died by firing squad in 1944 at age 23. This first-ever exhibition, Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh, tells how this Budapest-born poet, diarist, and author of the hymm Eli, Eli discovered her love for the Land of Israel, volunteered for a mission to rescue downed Allied fliers and Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary, and became an enduring symbol of courage and determination.

The video below was displayed in the exhibition.
This exhibition is made possible by leadership gifts in loving memory of Anne Ratner from her children and grandchildren, and from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Additional support provided by the David Berg Foundation and The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, Inc. We are grateful to the Senesh Family for making the exhibition possible by providing material from their collection. Travel generously sponsored by El Al Israel Airlines. Media Partner:

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Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh

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Among Israel's most important heroes is Hannah Senesh, who died by firing squad in 1944 at age 23. This first-ever exhibition, Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh, tells how this Budapest-born poet, diarist, and author of the hymm Eli, Eli discovered her love for the Land of Israel, volunteered for a mission to rescue downed Allied fliers and Jews from Nazi-occupied Hungary, and became an enduring symbol of courage and determination.

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She had a trial in October 1944, where she strongly defended her activities and refused to request mercy. Throughout the whole ordeal she remained steadfast in her courage, she was executed by a firing squad on November 7. When the time came she refused the blindfold, staring squarely at her executors and her fate. She was only 23 years old.

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In 1943, she decided to join the British Army and volunteered to be parachuted into Europe. Her goal was to help the Allied efforts in Europe, get in contact with partisan resistance fighters to try to help beleaguered Jewish communities. Senesh was 1 of 33 people to be chosen to parachute into enemy territory. She was trained in Egypt.

With the goal of reaching Budapest, in March 1944 she parachuted into Yugoslavia, and spent 3 months with Tito’s partisans. Thai is about the time when she was inspired to write her poem “Blessed is the Match”. She crossed the border into Hungary on June 7, 1944, at the peak of the deportation of Hungarian Jews.

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She inspires many Jews all around the world to do whatever they can to try, to go and to help others when they are in need. She risked her life to try to help save many Hungarian Jews and she showed that it is so important to stand up for what we believe in.

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“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.”
― Hannah Senesh

“To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.”
― Hannah Senesh

“In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.”
― Hannah Senesh

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SOPHIE MILMAN - ELI ELI - A WALK TO CEASAREA