Hannah Szenes

✶July 17, 1921

†November 7, 1944

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About their life

Hannah Szenes was a Jewish 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.

Jewish poet and anti-Nazi fighter in World War II

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