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Born on July 17, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, Hannah Sanesh was the daughter of an author and journalist, due to that, Sanesh showed great literary skills and kept a diary with her since 13 years of age until she died. Her family was assimilated, but anti-Semitic sentiment in Budapest was the reason of Sanesh's involvement in Zionist activities, which then led her to move to Eretz Yisreal in 1939 where she continued to write poetry.

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A biography of Hsnnah Senesh and a few pages of her diary

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In 1943, Hannah Senesh
joined the British forces where she volunteered to parachute into Europe to help the Allied establish contact with the resistance fighters to attempt to aid the beleaguered Jewish communities.

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Hannah Senesh in her British army unifor

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Hannah was chosen to parachute over Europe and help the Allied forces with the Jewish communities and the other resistance fighters. Hannah landed in Yugoslavia in March 1944 where she spent three months with Tito's partisans. There, she wrote the poem "Blessed is the Match" which is how her idealism and commitment to her cause were memorialized.

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June 7, 1994 was when Hannah decided to cross the Hungarian border at the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, but she was caught almost immediately by the Hungarian police. They tortured her cruelly and repeatedly for several months. Even in the worst conditions, Hannah Senesh refused to give the police officers and information on her mission even when they threatened her to do harm to her mother.

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Senesh's remains were brought back to Israel and re-interred at the military cemetery on Mount Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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During Senesh's trial, she did not have a lawyer but defended her activities staunchly and going on to her trial, Senesh refused to where a blindfold while being executed by firing squad. She stared squarely at her executors and her fate.

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This poem was found where Hannah Senesh being held

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This poem was found where Hannah Senesh being held

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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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A poem written by Hannah Senesh and sung by Ofra Haza.