Ordinary Heroes: Chana Szenes and the Dream of ZionSafe in Palestine during World War II, Hannah Senesh volunteered for a mission to help rescue fellow Jews in her native Hungary. She was captured by the Nazis, endured imprisonment and torture, and was finally executed as a spy at the age of twenty-three. |
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