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Hannah Szenes (July 17, 1921-November 7, 1944) was a paratrooper who was trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust with the British army. The purpose of her joining the British Army was to join with partisan resistance fighters, Jews rebelling against the Nazis, to help beleaguered Jewish communities. In March of 1944 she spent about three months with Tito's partisans and then on June 7th, 1944 she crossed to border back into Hungary, but the Hungarian police caught her. They tortured her cruelly and repeatedly over the next few months as they thought she was a spy. However, Hannah remained steadfast and refused to give any information about her mission, even when they brought in her mother and threatened to hurt her. During her trial in October 1944 she refused to request for clemency and was executed by a firing squad. She was only 23 years old.

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Her mother brought to public knowledge fifteen editions of Hannah's diaries, poems, and plays. Many of her play shave been and still are being enacted today.

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“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”

“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.”

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

“Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.”

“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.”

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Amid the anti-Semitic and hostile environment of Hungary, the poet Hannah Szenes joined with resistance forces, risking her life to save Jewish communities. Tune in and learn why Hannah Szenes is known as the "Joan of Arc of Israel" in this podcast.

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A Holocaust Story: Hannah Szenes - Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Amid the anti-Semitic and hostile environment of Hungary, the poet Hannah Szenes joined with resistance forces, risking her life to save Jewish communities. Tune in and learn why Hannah Szenes is known as the 'Joan of Arc of Israel' in this podcast. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

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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 Szenes on her first day in Palestine

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Hannah Szenes on her first day in Palestine

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Hannah Szenes with her brother before leaving for a rescue mission

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Hannah Szenes with her brother before leaving for a rescue mission