Hannah Senesh

Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian-Jewish poet and a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1921, she emigrated to what was then British Mandate Palestine in 1939, where she joined the Haganah, the Jewish defense force. In 1944, she parachuted into Yugoslavia to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Unfortunately, Senesh was captured, tortured, and eventually executed by the Nazis. She is remembered as a national heroine in Israel, and her poetry and diary have been widely published posthumously.

Books

Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary