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Hannah Senesh was born on July 17, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary to a wealthy Hungarian Jewish family. Her mother was a homemaker and her dad died when she was a child. He was a great writer.

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Hannah graduated in 1939, and went to college in Palestine. She studied agriculture, although she had a very good talent of writing and kept a diary from age 13. She enlisted in 1943. She volunteered to be a paratrooper.

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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, no cry. No, no, not I."
~Hannah Senesh

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Hannah went to a protestant school as a child. Although she had to pay double because she was Jewish. She joined clubs that protested Hitler during her middle school years.

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Hannah in uniform

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Hannah when she was young

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On November 7, 1944 she was given two options. Either please for forgiveness to the Nazis that caught and tortured her. Or she was to be executed. She refused to beg to her captors, so she chose execution. Hannah was executed by a firing squad, and refused the blindfold. She stared at her executors square in the face, as they ended her life.

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Hannah dressed in costume as a Hungarian Soldier

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Once Hannah volunteered to be a paratrooper in 1944, she began to practice.Began paratrooping practice in 1944. Many people volunteered, so it was tons of competition. 250 people volunteered to parachute, and only 110 were selected for training. Only 33 paratroopers were chosen actually parachuted into Egypt. Their purpose was to  help the allied efforts in Europe and make contact with the partisan resistance fighters. This way they could aid Jewish communities.

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On June 7, 1944 Hannah crossed the border into Hungary. She was caught almost imediatly. She was taken to prison and was questioned about her mission. She was tortured, threatened, but did not say a word. Hannah was tied to a chair for 3 days and was whipped but did not release any information. Even when they threatened to arrest her mother, she refused. So they arrested her mother and they came face to face for the first time in 5 years. Her mother was also arrested, and kept in prison. She communicated with other prisoners by using big cut our letters and pressed them against the window one by one. Hannah also tried keeping other prisoners spirits up by singing loudly. She used her great writing skills to write poems in a diary. Her mother was released from prison in September 1944.

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"Eili, Eili" is a poem written by Hannah, which was later made into a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDZ7ANkZwTI

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Hannah's grave in Isreal

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"Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heat."
~Hannah Senesh

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Hannah impacted many lives. From aiding many Jews in Egypt, to impacting the lives of those who simply read about her. She was a big hero, and her commitment was very strong.

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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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www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
www.reformjudaism.org
www.myjewishlearning.com
www.zionism-israel.com