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Hannah Szenes
a song of light
By Schur, Maxine & Ruff, Donna
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-82760-251-9
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1986.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1986
Gr 5-8 This brief biography of Hannah Szenes (Senesh) covers her early years in Hungary, her schooling, her growing interest in Zionism as a teenager, and her immigration to Palestine in 1939. As the war in Europe escalated, Szenes returned to Hungary on a mission to aid the resistance fighters, where she was arrested and executed in 1944 at age 23. Schur's biography, in contrast to Linda Atkinson's In Kindling Flame: the Story of Hannah Sene...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
