Szenes, Hannah

Szenes, Hannah
(1921–1944)
   A prime example of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, Hannah Szenes was a poet who was a parachutist in the Jewish commando unit of the British army. Szenes was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to Palestine in 1939 where she joined a kibbutz. In 1943, she volunteered to join parachutists, along with 36 other Hungarian-Palestinian Jews, who planned to infiltrate occupied Hungary to help save Jews who were about to be deported to Auschwitz. After being parachuted into Yugoslavia and spending time with a partisan band, Szenes crossed over into Hungary where she was arrested at the 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 read. Her best-known poem is “Blessed Be the Match,” which was written while she was in the partisan camp in Yugoslavia and includes the memorable lines,
   Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.
   Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.
   Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake.
   Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.

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  • Szenes, Hannah — (1921 44)    Palestinian poet and resistance fighter. She was born in Budapest, and moved to Palestine in 1939. She joined Kibbutz Sedot Yam, and began to write poetry. In 1942 she became one of a group of parachutists organized by the Haganah to …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

  • Hannah Szenes — in a Hungarian army uniform as a Purim costume. Hannah Szenes (Hebrew: חנה סנש‎) (Hungarian: Szenes Anikó), often anglicized as Hannah Senesh (July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews from the British Mandate for… …   Wikipedia

  • Hannah Szenes — ou Chana Senesh (1921 1944), d origine hongroise, fut l’une des 37 personnes juives vivant en Palestine, maintenant Israël, qui ont suivi l’entraînement spécial britannique pour être parachutées ou infiltrées en Europe en vue d’aider à sauver les …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Senesh (Szenes), Hannah — (1921–44)    Haganah parachutist in Nazi occupied Europe. Hannah Senesh was born into an assimilated Hungarian Jewish family but became a Zionist under the influence of the strong anti Semitism existing in Hungary in the late 1930s, which found… …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament

  • Hannah Szenes — con un uniforme del ejército húngaro como disfraz de Purim. Lealtad Judaísmo Participó en …   Wikipedia Español

  • Hannah Szenes — in ungarischer Armee Uniform, getragen als Purim Kostüm …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • SZENES (originally Schlesinger), BÉLA — (1894–1927), Hungarian author. Szenes was born in Budapest. He joined the editorial boards of various newspapers, and was noted for his feuilletons (known as Szenes ember, which, in Hungarian, has the additional meaning of coalman ). Szenes wrote …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Szenes — ist der Familienname von: Árpád Szenes (1897–1985), ungarisch französischer Maler Hannah Szenes (1921–1944), jüdische Widerstandskämpferin Ina Bauer Szenes (* 1941), deutsche Eiskunstläuferin Diese Seite ist eine …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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