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Hannah Szenes, the Glossary

Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; חנה סנש; Szenes Anna; 17 July 19217 November 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member.^[1]

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20th-century diarists
20th-century executions for treason
Hungarian Zionists
Hungarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Hungarian people of World War II
Hungarian torture victims
Jewish parachutists of Mandate Palestine
Mandatory Palestine military personnel killed in World War II
Military personnel who died in the Holocaust
Overturned convictions
People executed by Hungary by firing squad
People executed for treason against Hungary
Special Operations Executive personnel killed in World War II
Spies who died in the Holocaust
Women's Auxiliary Air Force airwomen

A Walk to Caesarea

"A Walk to Caesarea" (הליכה לקיסריה, Halikha LeKeisarya), also commonly known by the opening words "Eli, Eli" (אֵלִי, אֵלִי, "My God, My God") in the song version, is a poem in Hebrew written in 1942 by Hungarian Jewish WWII resistance fighter Hannah Szenes, which Israeli composer David Zehavi set to music in 1945.

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Aharon Megged

Aharon Megged (10 August 1920 – 23 March 2016) (Hebrew year 5680) was an Israeli author and playwright.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.

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Arrow Cross Party

The Arrow Cross Party (Nyilaskeresztes Párt – Hungarista Mozgalom,, abbreviated NYKP) was a far-right Hungarian ultranationalist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which formed a government in Hungary they named the Government of National Unity.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Execution by firing squad

Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

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Extermination camp

Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.

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Șerban Nichifor

Șerban Nichifor (born 25 August 1954) is a Romanian composer, cellist and music educator.

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Gendarmerie

A gendarmerie is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population.

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German invasion of Hungary (1944)

In March 1944, Hungary was occupied by the Wehrmacht.

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Haganah

Haganah (הַהֲגָנָה) was the main Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the British Mandate for Palestine.

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Hanna's War

Hanna's War is a 1988 war film co-written and directed by Menahem Golan.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Henry Abramson

Henry Abramson (born 1963) is a Canadian historian who is the current dean of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences at Touro College in Flatbush, New York.

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History of the Jews in Hungary

The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jewish assimilation

Jewish assimilation (התבוללות, hitbolelut) refers either to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture or to an ideological program in the age of emancipation promoting conformity as a potential solution to historic Jewish marginalization.

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Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine

The Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine were a group of 250 Jewish men and women from Mandate Palestine who volunteered for operations run by British organisations MI9 and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which involved parachuting into German-occupied Europe between 1943 and 1945. Hannah Szenes and Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine are Burials at Mount Herzl and Jewish parachutists of Mandate Palestine.

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Kibbutz

A kibbutz (קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ,;: kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים / קיבוצים) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lyric poetry

Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.

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Maruschka Detmers

Maruschka Detmers (born 16 December 1962, Schoonebeek) is a Dutch actress.

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Menahem Golan

Menahem Golan (מנחם גולן; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director.

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Mount Herzl

Mount Herzl (הַר הֶרְצְל Har Hertsl), also Har ha-Zikaron (lit. "Mount of Remembrance"), is the site of Israel's national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities, found on the west side of Jerusalem beside the Jerusalem Forest.

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Nahalal

Nahalal (נַהֲלָל) is a moshav in northern Israel.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza (עפרה חזה.; 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer, songwriter and actress, commonly known in the Western world as "the Madonna of the East", or "the Israeli Madonna". Hannah Szenes and Ofra Haza are Jewish women writers.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Purim

Purim (see Name below) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman, as it is recounted in the Book of Esther (usually dated to the 5th century BCE).

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Regina Spektor

Regina Ilyinichna Spektor (Регинa Ильинична Спектор,; born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Rezső Kasztner

Rezső Kasztner (1906 – 15 March 1957), also known as Rudolf Israel Kastner (ישראל רודולף קסטנר), was a Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for having helped a group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust on the Kastner train. Hannah Szenes and Rezső Kasztner are Hungarian Zionists and Hungarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine.

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Roberta Grossman

Roberta Grossman (born January 7, 1959) is an American filmmaker.

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Sdot Yam

Sdot Yam (שְׂדוֹת יָם, lit. Sea Fields) is a kibbutz in the Haifa District of Israel.

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Sophie Milman

Sophie Milman (born 1983) is a Russian-born Canadian jazz vocalist.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.

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Women Make Movies

Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City.

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Women's Auxiliary Air Force

The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), whose members were referred to as WAAFs, was the female auxiliary of the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yad Hana

Yad Hana (Hannah's Memorial) is a community settlement and former kibbutz in central Israel.

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Yishuv

Yishuv (lit), HaYishuv HaIvri (Hebrew settlement), or HaYishuv HaYehudi Be'Eretz Yisra'el denotes the body of Jewish residents in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

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Yugoslav Partisans

The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: Partizani, Партизани or the National Liberation Army,Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); Народноослободителна војска (НОВ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska (NOV) officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia,Народноослободилачка војска и партизански одреди Југославије (НОВ и ПОЈ); Народноослободителна војска и партизански одреди на Југославија (НОВ и ПОЈ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska in partizanski odredi Jugoslavije (NOV in POJ) was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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Zionist youth movement

A Zionist youth movement (tnuot hanoar hayehudiot hatsioniot) is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social, and ideological development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Szenes

Also known as Blessed is the match, Chana senesh, Hana Senesh, Hanna Szenes, Hannah Senesh, Jana Szenes, חנה סנש.

, World War II, Yad Hana, Yishuv, Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslavia, Zionism, Zionist youth movement.

Hannah Szenes, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century diarists

20th-century executions for treason

Hungarian Zionists

Hungarian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine

Hungarian people of World War II

Hungarian torture victims

Jewish parachutists of Mandate Palestine

Mandatory Palestine military personnel killed in World War II

Military personnel who died in the Holocaust

Overturned convictions

People executed by Hungary by firing squad

People executed for treason against Hungary

Special Operations Executive personnel killed in World War II

Spies who died in the Holocaust

Women's Auxiliary Air Force airwomen

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