Hannah Senesh (1921–1944)
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- Szenes, Hannah
- Geboortedatum
- 1921-07-17
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1944-11-07
- Graflocatie
- Mount Herzl Cemetery, Jerusalem, Israel
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Hungary
- Geboorteplaats
- Budapest, Hungary
- Plaats van overlijden
- Budapest, Hungary
- Woonplaatsen
- Budapest, Hungary
Nahalal, Israel
Kibbutz Sdot Yam, Israel - Beroepen
- paratrooper, British Army
resistance fighter
poet
diarist
playwright - Organisaties
- British Army
Special Operations Executive - Korte biografie
- Hannah Senesh (originally Szenes) was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. She showed literary talent as a child, and kept a diary from age 13. Rising anti-Semitism in Budapest led her to involvement in Zionist activities, and she emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1939. She studied first at an agricultural school and then settled at Kibbutz Sdot Yam near Haifa. She also wrote poetry and a play about kibbutz life. In 1943, during World War II, she volunteered for the British Army and was sent for parachute training by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The goal was to liaise with resistance groups to assist the Allied war effort and save Jews in Nazi-occupied countries. In March 1944, she was dropped into Yugoslavia and spent three months with Tito’s partisans. Her idealism and commitment to her cause were memorialized in her poem "Blessed is the Match," which she wrote at this time.
On June 7, 1944, at the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, Senesh crossed the border into Hungary.
She was caught almost immediately by the Hungarian police and tortured until being executed on November 7 at the age of 23. Her diary and other literary works were later published, and many of her more popular poems were set to music. The diary appeared first in Hebrew in 1946. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary was published in English in 2004.
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