Hannah Szenes in 10 Minutes

Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time · May 25, 2026 · 8m

Explore the courageous, yet tragically short, life of Hannah Szenes (1921–1944), the Hungarian-born Jewish poet, diarist, and paratrooper whose ultimate sacrifice became a profound symbol of resistance and hope during the Holocaust. Born into a privileged family, she emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1939 to fulfill her Zionist ideals, but in 1944, volunteered to parachute behind enemy lines into Axis-occupied Hungary to aid the rescue of Jewish refugees and Allied pilots. . Captured almost immediately, she refused to divulge any information under torture and was executed by firing squad at…