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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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

A high school student discovered that Hannah Szenes' Hebrew birth date on her gravestone was incorrect while working on a school project.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli paratroopers during the "Lightning of the Heavens" mission

Israeli paratroopers parachute into Slovenia to honor pre-state heroes

The mission is part of 'Lightning of the Heavens', a unique military mission honoring Hanna Szenes and other pre-state paratroopers who fought in World War II.

|ByELIAV BREUER, ANNA AHRONHEIM
Hannah Szenes

Nephew of Hannah Szenes criticizes event commemorating her

'The State of Israel should not have involved Hungarian paratroopers in the event – it hurts the family,' said Eitan Szenes.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

JULY 5, 2021ByANNA AHRONHEIM
An Israeli paratrooper takes part in a military exercise at the Palmahim air force base