In 1944 Jewish Hungarian-born paratrooper Hannah Senesh was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in a desperate attempt to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. Captured, tortured, and executed shortly thereafter, her story and her poems have made Senesh into an iconic figure of modern Jewish, Israeli, and Zionist culture.
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The collection includes letters, diaries, songs, and poems that were found under Senesh's bed in Kibbutz Sdot Yam and writings and personal items Senesh's mother, Katherine, brought from Budapest when she came to Mandatory Palestine.
Over the past year, the complete Hannah Senesh Archival Collection has been transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, where it will be made available to the public. It includes documents from throughout Senesh's life as well as personal items such as the suitcase she took when she moved to the Land of Israel, her typewriter and camera.
Perhaps the two most moving items in the collection are a pair of notes found in her dress following her execution: the last poem she ever wrote and a personal letter to her mother.
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