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Hannah Szenes was born on 17 July, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II. Discover Hannah Szenes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 23 years old?

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Age 23 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 17 July 1921
Birthday 17 July
Birthplace Budapest, Hungary
Date of death 7 November, 1944
Died Place Budapest, Hungary
Nationality Hungary

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1921

Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; חנה סנש; Szenes Anna; 17 July 1921 – 7 November 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member.

She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.

Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border by Hungarian gendarmes.

She was imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission.

She was eventually tried and executed by firing squad.

She is regarded as a national hero in Israel but has largely been forgotten in her birthplace of Hungary according to The Guardian.

In Israel her poetry is widely known and the Yad Hana kibbutz, as well as several streets, are named after her.

Szenes was born in Budapest on 17 July, 1921, to an assimilated Jewish family in Hungary.

Her father, Béla, a well known journalist and playwright, died when she was a child.

She continued to live with her mother, Catherine, and her brother, György.

She enrolled in a Protestant private school for girls that also accepted Catholic and Jewish pupils; however those of the Catholic and Jewish faiths had to pay double and three times the amount Protestants paid.

After her mother thought it was too expensive, Szenes was declared a "gifted student" and allowed to only pay double the usual amount.

The realization that the situation of the Jews in Hungary was becoming precarious, prompted Szenes to embrace Zionism, and she joined Maccabea, a Hungarian Zionist youth movement and learned Hebrew.

1939

Szenes graduated in 1939 and decided to emigrate to Mandatory Palestine in order to study in the Girls' Agricultural School at Nahalal.

1941

In 1941, she joined Kibbutz Sdot Yam and then joined the Haganah, the paramilitary group that laid the foundation of the Israel Defense Forces.

1943

In 1943, she enlisted in the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class.

Later the same year, she was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was sent to Egypt for parachute training.

Between 1943 and 1944, the Jewish community in Palestine (Yishuv) decided to send Jewish parachutists behind enemy lines to assist both Allied forces and the Jews in occupied Europe.

The mission was a cooperation between the Yishuv and British forces to create a Jewish commando unit within the British army.

Szenes volunteered and was selected along with 32 others, out of 250 candidates, to be sent on active missions.

1944

On March 14, 1944, she and two colleagues were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group.

After landing, they learned the Germans had already occupied Hungary, so the men decided to call off the mission as too dangerous.

Szenes continued on and headed for the Hungarian border.

At the border, she and her companions were arrested by Hungarian gendarmes, who found her British military transmitter, used to communicate with the SOE and other partisans.

She was taken to a prison, stripped, tied to a chair, then whipped and clubbed for three days.

She lost several teeth as a result of the beatings.

The guards wanted to know the code for her transmitter so they could find out who the parachutists were and trap others.

Transferred to a Budapest prison, Szenes was repeatedly interrogated and tortured, but only revealed her name and refused to provide the transmitter code, even when her mother was also arrested.

They threatened to kill her mother if she did not cooperate, but she refused.

She was tried for treason in Hungary on 28 October 1944 by a court appointed by the fascist Arrow Cross regime.

There was an eight-day postponement to give the judges more time to find a verdict, followed by another postponement, this one because of the appointment of a new Judge Advocate.

She was executed by a firing squad on November 7, 1944.

She kept diary entries until her last day.

One of them read: "In the month of July, I shall be twenty-three/I played a number in a game/The dice have rolled. I have lost," and another: "I loved the warm sunlight."

1946

Her diary was published in Hebrew in 1946.

1950

Her remains were brought to Israel in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem.

2007

Her tombstone was brought to Israel in November 2007 and placed in Sdot Yam.

During the trial of Rudolf Kastner, who was a controversial figure involved in negotiating with the Nazis to save a number of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, Szenes's mother testified that during the time her daughter was imprisoned, Kastner's people had advised her not to obtain a lawyer for her daughter.

Further, she recalled a conversation with Kastner after the war, telling him, "I don't say that you could have saved my daughter Hannah, but that you didn't try – it makes it harder for me that nothing was done."

After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her.