Szenes, Hannah (also Hannah Senesh, Chana Szenes)

Born: 1921 AD
Died: 1944 AD, at 23 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None

Hungarian author, soldier, Zionist, and resistance leader in World War II

immigrated to Palestine 1939

parachuted into Yugoslavia 1944 to help organize Jewish resistance to Nazis

crossed border into Hungary, but captured and executed

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