Ordinary heroes

By Hay, Peter

Subjects: Ethnic relations, Biography, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Hungary, social conditions, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), Jews, biography, World war, 1939-1945, jews, Jews, Jews, palestine, Jewish resistance

Description: Safe 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.