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Hannah Senesh was a young girl who wrote poems during and about the holocaust. And she was born on July 17, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Senesh became a symbol of idealism and self sacrifice. Senesh was born on July 17, 1921, in Budapest, Hungary. Senesh joined the British Army and volunteered to be parachuted into Eroupe in 1943.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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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.

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"Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame”

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://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hannah-senesh

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/szenes-hannah

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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

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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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she is smiling back at the camera

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she is saluting and smiling back at the camera.

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she is sitting in a chair and smiling.

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she is looking to the side and you can see the side of her face.

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she is sitting on the beach.

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this is her statue of her with her suit on.

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Szenes was captured in June after entering Hungary, and sent to a prison in Budapest, where she was tortured.

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Since Szenes would not talk, Hungarian authorities arrested her mother. Both women remained silent. Given the chance to beg for a pardon in November 1944, Szenes chose death by firing squad.

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Szenes penned short notes to her mother and her comrades and went to her death at age twenty-three in a snow-covered Budapest courtyard, refusing a blindfold in order to face her murderers in the moments before her death. Her body was buried by unknown persons in the Jewish graveyard at Budapest.

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https://youtu.be/QNB1x6u72Vc