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Hannah Senesh


Born
in Hungary
July 17, 1921

Died
November 07, 1944

Genre
Poetry


Hannah Szenes was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews living in Palestine, now Israel, who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of Hungary, who were about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.

Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, imprisoned and tortured, but she refused to reveal details of her mission and was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. She is regarded as a national heroine in Israel, where several streets and a kibbutz are named after her, and her poetry is widely known.

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Quotes by Hannah Senesh

“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
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“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
tags: courage, defiance, determination, hope, hope-and-despair, inspiration, inspirational, jewish-heroines, love, peace, resistance-fighters, strength, ww2-history
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“I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.”
― Hannah Senesh, Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition
tags: holocaust, last-words, martyrs, poetry
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