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Hannah Senesh took after her father's amazing literary talent. He was a journalists in which lead Hannah Senesh to be inspired by his work. Senesh went on to write many poems and even a play.

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One of Hannah Senesh's most famous poems is:

Blessed Is the Match

"Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame

Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame"

There is also a documentary with this name made after Hannah Senesh

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Baumel, Judith Tydor. "The Heroism of Hannah Szenes: An Exercise in Creating Collective National Memory in the State of Israel." In Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust, edited by Judith Tydor Baumel, 155-180. Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998

Hay, Peter. Ordinary Heroes: Chana Szenes and the Dream of Zion. New York: Putnam, 1986

Palgi, Y. And Behold, A Great Wind Came (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1977

Masters, Anthony. The Summer That Bled: The Biography of Hanna Senesh. London: St. Martin's, 1972

Breslavski, M., ed. Hannah Szenes: Her Life, Mission and Death (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: N.p., 1966

Gilad, Zerubavel. Secret Shield (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Jewish Agency, 1952

Senesh, Hannah. At Levadekh Tavini: Hanna Szenes Letters 1935-1944. Edited by Szalai, Anna. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2014

Syrkin, M. Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1947

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Hannah Szenes (Senesh) | Jewish Women's Archive

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Hannah Szenes has attained legendary status in the pantheon of Zionist history. After immigrating to Israel, Szenes agreed to participate in a military operation as a paratrooper. Hungarian authorities captured her and tortured her, but Szenes refused to talk. She was killed by a firing squad in 1944.

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Hannah Senesh grew up admiring her father and his writing. He, unfortunately, passed away when Hannah Senesh was just a child. Senesh then lived with only her mother and brother until she decided to become Zionist and immigrate to Palestine in the year of 1939.

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In the year of 1943 Szenes(Senesh) was asked to join a clandestine military operation. Senesh then became a member of the Palmah. Later, in March of 1944, she was dropped into Yugoslavia in order to aid anti-Nazi forces. This made many admire her bravery.

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Senesh was brutally captured in June after entering the country of Hungary, she was then sent to a prison in Budapest. In this prison she was tortured beyond belief. Still, after facing much torture, Senesh remained. The Hungarian authorities then , cold-heartedly, arrested her mother as well. Her mother, like Hannah Senesh, remained silent and stood firm in her belief to save the Jews. Hannah Senesh was then given the choice to beg for a pardon, yet, Senesh chose death by firing squad.

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After Hannah Seneshs' brutal death, her mother was determined to keep her daughters' memory alive. She did this by publishing many of Seneshs' beautiful writing pieces. This included; poems, plays, and even her diary from when Hannah Senesh was inly 13.

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The Heroism of Hannah Senesh - Eli, Eli by Sophie Milman, 2014 March of the Living

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“Hora to an Exiled Girl

A hora, roaring, tempestuous, blazes around me

With the mystery of rhythm, gladdening and forging,

It tugs at my body and heart

The foot marches, the back quivers, the song is ignited, a searing chorus

Dance and song, a wordless prayer,

Hail to the future, hail to creation

But then a figure flutters before my eyes

My arm has escaped my friends’ embrace

My heart spurns the tempestuous singing,

Far and near it consumes me whole

Blue eyes

Such a bewildered glance

A sad silence and a stubborn mouth

The stillness grows in me

I remain standing

Alone, in a crowd of a hundred, her and I

(Translation by Elie Leshem)”

― Hannah Senesh

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“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