Hannah Szenes by Josie Gibson

Before 1939

29josigibs — 2025-02-07 19:13:29 UTC

Who is Hannah Szenes?

29josigibs — 2025-02-07 19:16:57 UTC

Hannah Szenes was born July 17th 1921. She moved from her native Hungary to the British Mandate of Palestine, where she became a paratrooper in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

29josigibs — 2025-02-07 19:20:47 UTC

Between 1943 and 1945, a group of Jewish men and women from Palestine who had volunteered to join the British army parachuted into German-occupied Europe. Their mission was to organize resistance to the Germans and aid in the rescue of Allied personnel. Hannah Szenes was among these volunteers.

What did Hannah Szenes do?

29josigibs — 2025-02-07 20:22:20 UTC

She was one of 32 Jewish volunteer parachutists from Palestine that the British Army sent behind German lines for resistance and rescue efforts. On June 7, 1944, Szenes tried to infiltrate German-occupied Hungary.

When did she do her act of resistance?

29josigibs — 2025-02-10 16:59:16 UTC

June 7, 1944

where did she do her act of resistance?

29josigibs — 2025-02-10 17:02:23 UTC

German-occupied Hungary

Hannah Szenes act of resistance

29josigibs — 2025-02-10 17:05:25 UTC

In mid-March 1944 she and several other Palestinian-Jewish volunteers 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 delayed their plans, and Szenes crossed the border to her former motherland only in June of that year. 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.

Hannah Szenes quote

29josigibs — 2025-02-10 20:31:58 UTC

"I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."

29josigibs — 2025-02-10 20:34:45 UTC

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