Hannah Szenes

Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II · Hungary · On the map · Writers · Lived 1921 to 1944 · aged 23

Hannah Szenes was a Jewish, Hungarian-born poet, playwright, and resistance operative trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). In 1944, she was one of 37 Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine parachuted into occupied Europe to support Allied efforts and help rescue Jews facing extermination.

Hannah Szenes is read about 200 times a day, in 31 languages.

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