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HistoryFigure1921–1944

חנה סנש

Region: Hongrie et Terre d'Israël

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Hungarian Jewish poet and paratrooper, sent by the British to rescue Jews from Hungary. Captured and executed, she became an Israeli national heroine.

A book yet to be written

This Great Book has not been written yet. You can start it right here: Claude composes an original work from the archive pieces in the corpus and from web research, then enriches it with every new source contributed.

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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Hannah Szenes give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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Sources & resources

  • D. and P. Bar-Adon, Seven who Fell (1947)
  • M. Syrkin, Blessed is the Match (1948)
  • « Szenes, Hannah », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007)
  • Y. Palgi, Ru'a? Gedolah Ba'ah (1956)
  • Y. Lewy (ed.), Das Leben von Chana Szenes 1921 (1960)
  • N. Braslavski (ed.), Hannah Szenes, ?ayyeha, Sheli?utah u-Motah (1966)
  • O. Besser, Ha-?an?anit she-Lo Shavah (1969)

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