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On June 7, 1944, at the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, Senesh crossed the border into Hungary.

She was caught almost immediately by the Hungarian police and tortured cruelly and repeatedly over the next several months. Despite these conditions, Senesh refused to divulge 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. At her trial in October 1944, Senesh staunchly defended her activities, and she refused to request clemency. 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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Hannah dressed up as a soldier

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Hannah Senesh (originally Szenes) was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Captured and killed by the Nazis, she is still a national heroine in Israel. Senesh was born on July 17, 1921, 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. Although her family was assimilated, anti-Semitic sentiment in Budapest led her to involvement in Zionist activities, and she left Hungary for Eretz Yisrael in 1939. She studied first at an agricultural school and then settled at Kibbutz Sdot Yam. While there she wrote poetry, as well as a play about kibbutz life.

In 1943, Senesh joined the British Army and volunteered to be parachuted into Europe. The purpose of this operation was to help the Allied efforts in Europe and establish contact with partisan resistance fighters in an attempt to aid beleaguered Jewish communities. Senesh trained in Egypt and was one of the thirty-three people chosen to parachute behind enemy lines. With the goal of reaching her native Budapest, Senesh parachuted into Yugoslavia in March 1944 and spent three months with Tito’s partisans. Her idealism and commitment to her cause are memorialized in her poem “Blessed is the Match,” which she wrote at this time.

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"There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct."

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One - two - three... eight feet long
Two strides across, the rest is dark...
Life is a fleeting question mark
One - two - three... maybe another week.
Or the next month may still find me here,
But death, I feel is very near.
I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

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Hannah was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Budapest, but in 1950 her body was exhumed and transported to Israel by a warship that docked in Haifa for a memorial ceremony. Her remains were then taken to her Israeli home, Kibbutz Sdot Yam near Caesarea, for another ceremony, and then on to Tel Aviv where yet another commemoration took place. Finally, she was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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Hannah Szenes: Remembering a Symbol of Jewish Heroism

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After her death her Diary was made into a book to help remember the war and what happened. Kinda like Anne Frank but less famous

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Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2008) [HD]

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In 2019 The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene’s 104th season is called “Spiritual Resistance.” The theme works in parallel to the exhibit, “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away,” currently at the theater company’s home, the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Tribute to the Holocaust in lower Manhattan.

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Before She was helping in the war Hannah was a poet. she wrote poems like: Now, At the crossroads, Blessed is the match and Walk to Caesarea. she also kept a diary that she wrote in it until her death.

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all info came from google and Jewish virtual library 

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all info came from google and Jewish virtual library 