Hannah Senesh: Her Life & Diary - Hannah Senesh

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Hannah Senesh: Her Life & Diary, Hannah Senesh, translated from Hebrew by Marta Cohn, 1921-1944 (1966), Hungary/Israel, DIARY/LETTERS

"...Hannah feels powerless in the face of its horrors: "We can do nothing else; we're forbidden to take action, though there is certainly a difference between passivity and inactivity." But she volunteers, the only female, for a parachute troop with a secret mission to land behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia, sneak into occupied Hungary, and warn the Jewish population, including her mother, of their imminent fate..."

(H.S., p. 252)