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Hannah Senesh was a poet and also part of British army whose job was to rescue Jews who were being tormented and abused during the holocaust.She rescued people captured  by the Nazis putting her life  at stake of getting killed.When she left hungary to in 1937 to start her career at rescuing the Jews from the Nazis.Her family  was assimilated and it  led to her going to Eretz Yisrael in 1939. In 1943 senesh joined the british and assisted to be parachuted.She was killed on November 7, 1944 at the age of 23 and was  buried in the military cemetery of Israel.

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"Hannah Senesh was the daughter of Bela Senesh, a well‐known Budapest playwright and man of letters who died in 1927, when Hannah was 6. Living in comfort with her mother and older brother, she inwardly grieved the loss of her father (for she was very much Daddy's little princess) but outwardly continued to lead what appeared to be a normal well‐ordered middle class childhood. She had Jewish and gentile playmates, attended a Protestant school, earned pocket money tutoring, went to parties and concerts, was kind to her mother, summered on Lake Balaton, saw numerous family relations, and was, by all accounts, good natured, precocious and charming. A serious girl, a little priggish perhaps, but she would probably get over that someday, when she met a young man she could trust." https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/21/archives/hannah-senesh-her-life-and-diary-introduction-by-abba-eban.html#:~:text=She%20had%20Jewish%20and%20gentile,good%20natured%2C%20precocious%20and%20charming
Based on this article Hannah was a good person and was the daughter of Bela Senesh. Also, her father died at a young age. Hannah was respectful to her mother and was an educated person who went to the school a Protestant school. During her childhood she didn't get in trouble and she did what she was told.

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The reason why I chose her is because she was a very ambitious in supporting the Jews to get to safety.In 1944 at the age of 22 , she went on a mission into Nazi-occupied Hungary. She inspired me to do what right and not the opposite

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Not many people would do what she did freeing the Jews. Some might be scared and wouldn't have risked their life,but what she did inspired other to help people who are in  danger and to do what is right. Hannah left a legacy of being one of multiple  people who assisted the Jews being persecuted.She had an impact on society leading it to people doing what is conscientious and also having one of her poem being used to music. This send a message to the civilization to help other when they are in danger or in need.

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“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.”

― Hannah Senesh

“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

“Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.

Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places.

Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating.

Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.”

― Hannah Senesh

“I could have been 23 next July

I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.”

― Hannah Senesh,

“My God, my God

May there be no end

To the sea, to the sand,

The splash of the water,

The glow of the sky,

The prayer of man”

― Hannah Senesh

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

― Hannah Senesh

“In the mountains one involuntarily hears the query: "Where shall I send you?" And the answer, "Send me to serve the beautiful and good!”

― Hannah Senesh

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A poem of Hannah wrote during the holocaust led it to being used in music called " Eli Eli"

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One of the more poignant songs included in many Holocaust memorial convocations held in Israel, is a short poem, set to music, known popularly as "Eli, Eli." The four-line poem, actually entitled "Walking to Caesarea," was written by one of the more mythological figures in contemporary Jewish and Israeli history, Hannah Senesh (Szenes), whose short life and death have propelled her into the pantheon of Zionist history.

Hannah Senesh was born in Budapest on July 17, 1921, to a wealthy, distinguished, and assimilated Hungarian Jewish family. Her father, Bela Senesh (1874-1929), who died when she was a child, had been a well-known writer and dramatist and her mother, Katharine, an elegant homemaker. Having been given a modern Hungarian education, Senesh was exposed to anti-Semitism during her high school years, propelling her to learn more about her Jewish origins. It was at that time that she discovered the Zionist movement, joining a Zionist youth movement and learning Hebrew in preparation for immigration to Palestine.

In 1939, after finishing her high school studies, Senesh came to Palestine to study at the girls' agricultural school in Nahalal, continuing the diary that she had begun in Hungary. Having completed a two-year course in agriculture, Senesh joined the Sedot Yam kibbutz at Caesarea. Her choice was motivated by the preference of maintaining an anonymous status, rather than being known as "the daughter of Bela Senesh," something that would have been likely had she joined one of the kibbutz groups whose members were primarily of Hungarian origin. Senesh worked in the kitchen and in the kibbutz laundry, and the difficulties that she encountered are echoed in her diary.

In Palestine

In 1943 Jewish Agency officials made overtures towards Senesh to join a clandestine military project whose ultimate purpose was to offer aid to beleaguered European Jewry. The young immigrant, who became a member of the Palmah (the pre-State assault companies of the Haganah), first studied in a course for wireless operators, and in January 1944 participated in a course for paratroopers.

Before leaving Palestine she met with her brother Giora who had just arrived from Europe-the sole surviving member of her immediate family other than her mother-and the two spent the afternoon together on the shores of the Mediterranean, bringing each other up to date with personal and family news.

In mid-March 1944 she and several other Palestinian-Jewish volunteers (most of whom were also of European origin) were dropped into Yugoslavia in order to aid the anti-Nazi forces until they would be able to commence their true mission and enter Hungary. The German invasion of Hungary in March 1944 postponed their plans, and Senesh crossed the border to her former motherland only in June of that year.

Imprisoned in Hungary

Captured within hours of having stepped on to Hungarian soil, she was sent to prison in Budapest where she was tortured by Hungarian authorities in the hope of receiving information regarding Allied wireless codes. Within days of entering Hungary, her two co-parachutists were also captured, unaware of Senesh's whereabouts. Only one of them-Yoel Palgi-was to survive the war.

When the Hungarian authorities realized that Senesh would not be broken, they arrested her mother and the two women came face to face with each other for the first time in almost five years. Katharine Senesh had no idea that her daughter had left Palestine-not to speak of the fact that she was now in Hungary. Initially shocked as they brought in the young woman with bruised eyes and who had lost a front tooth in the torture process, she rapidly regained her composure, and both mother and daughter refused to give the authorities the performance that would lead to the information they had sought.

For three months the two women were near yet far, sharing the same prison walls but unable to catch more than short glimpses of each other. In September 1944, after Katharine Senesh was suddenly released, she spent most of her waking hours seeking legal assistance for her daughter, who-being a Hungarian national-was to be tried as a spy.

In November 1944 Hannah Senesh came up before a tribunal and eloquently pleaded her own cause, warning the judges that as the end of the war was nearing, that their own fate would soon hang in the balance. Convicted as a spy, Senesh was sentenced to death, although the court had decided not to carry out the sentence with alacrity.

Put to Death

However, her poignant speech during the trial was taken as a personal affront by the officer in charge, Colonel Simon, who came into her cell on the morning of November 7th and presented her with two options: to beg for a pardon, or to face death by a firing squad.

Refusing to beg clemency from her captors, whom she did not consider legally permitted to try her case, Senesh 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.

Katharine Senesh, who escaped from the infamous Budapest "Death March," hid in that city until its liberation by the Soviet forces in January 1945. Having immigrated to Palestine where she joined her surviving child, Giora, she became an instrumental part of the Hannah Senesh legend, based on her daughter's courageous life and death, brought to public knowledge by fifteen editions of her daughters diary, poetry, and plays, that have since been published in Hebrew.

In 1950 Hannah Senesh's remains were brought to Israel where they were buried in the "Parachutists' section" in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. In the same year a kibbutz was founded and called in her memory.

Reprinted from Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia with permission of the author and the Jewish Women's Archive.

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One of the more poignant songs included in many Holocaust memorial convocations held in Israel, is a short poem, set to music, known popularly as "Eli, Eli." The four-line poem, actually entitled "Walking to Caesarea," was written by one of the more mythological figures in contemporary Jewish and Israeli history, Hannah Senesh (Szenes), whose short life and death have propelled her into the pantheon of Zionist history.