Hannah Szenes

Hannah Szenes: poet, paratrooper, photographer remembered 80 years after death

While Hannah Szenes is mainly remembered for her poetry, her photographer casts a revealing glance into her time in Israel and before.

 Hannah Senesh sitting at her desk, from the Senesh Family Archive at the National Library of Israel.
Hannah Szenes

Hannah Szenes' Hebrew birth date corrected on gravestone after 70 years

Israeli paratroopers during the "Lightning of the Heavens" mission

Israeli paratroopers parachute into Slovenia to honor pre-state heroes

Hannah Szenes

Nephew of Hannah Szenes criticizes event commemorating her


IDF paratroopers head to Europe to jump for Hannah Szenes's 100th birthday

"Lightening of the Heavens" will see paratroopers jump where Szenes parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944

An Israeli paratrooper takes part in a military exercise at the Palmahim air force base