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Hannah Senesh

Hannah Senesh with her older brother Gyuri in Tel Aviv. After being stranded in France during the war, Gyuri finally made it to Palestine the day his sister was shipping out to Egypt for training for her mission. This photo documents this meeting. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
March 24, 2026, 4:56 pm
Certain death, small chance of success: The pre-state parachuters who jumped into Nazi Europe
Matti Friedman’s new book, ‘Out of the Sky,’ breathes life into British intelligence operatives who became Zionist heroes despite — or because of — failing at their real mission
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. David Senesh, a clinical psychologist specialized in intergenerational trauma, is a former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war and the nephew of Zionist poet Hannah Senesh. (Courtesy)
October 27, 2025, 5:54 am
Raised in Hannah Senesh’s shadow, an ex-POW says Israel must finally face its demons
Leaving Israel for Berlin, David Senesh, a clinical psychologist dealing with intergenerational trauma, says hostages, and country, can only process and heal once cycle of crises ends
By Rossella Tercatin
'Daughters of Deborah' - a monument for fallen female soldiers in Petah Tikva, September 2025 (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)
October 11, 2025, 7:59 am
October 7 spurs new memorials honoring Israel’s fallen female soldiers
From Nahal Oz to Petah Tikva’s ‘Daughters of Deborah,’ new monuments reflect Israel’s long-overdue recognition of women’s sacrifice in battle
By Tal Schneider
Students from Hannah Senech Community Day School at Sima restaurant in Jerusalem, along with their accompanying teachers and guides, on March 25, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)
April 1, 2024, 6:36 pm
Brooklyn 8th-graders find connection on ‘super powerful’ solidarity trip to Israel
Students from New York’s Hannah Senesh Community Day School spend a week in the Holy Land in a modified graduation visit, in perhaps the first day school trip since October 7
By Gavriel Fiske
Written in Hebrew at the Anna Szenes House in Kibbutz Sdot Yam are the words of the young Senesh's poem, 'A voice called, and I went.' (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 21, 2021, 8:31 am
Discover a fallen poet and WWII heroine at the Hannah Senesh House near Caesarea
Recently opened to visitors, a newly renovated museum honors the Hungarian-born writer and paratrooper killed when she returned to Europe from the Holy Land to save her fellow Jews
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Hannah Senesh with chickens on Moshav Nahalal, part of the Hannah Senesh Collection that is now part of Israel's National Library (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
July 29, 2021, 4:33 pm
National Library digitizes poet-soldier Hannah Senesh’s literary estate
Archive includes her Bat Mitzvah certificate, notebooks, diaries, and other personal items; move comes in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday
By ToI Staff
Israeli paratroopers recreate the partisans historic jump during World War II in honor of Hannah Senesh, in Slovenia, on July 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 20, 2021, 9:13 pm
IDF paratroopers recreate WWII jump in honor of poet-soldier Hannah Senesh
Soldiers from the Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian and British militaries also take part in memorial jump in Slovenia
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Dozens of Israeli paratroopers land in Poland during the US-led 'Swift Response' exercise in Europe in June 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 5, 2021, 7:18 pm
Israeli paratroopers to recreate partisans’ WWII jump in honor of Hannah Senesh
Some 150 IDF soldiers set to take part in weeklong program in Central Europe, marking the 100th birthday of the Hungarian-born soldier-poet
By Judah Ari Gross
Hannah Senesh and her brother Giora, right, in 1924, part of the Hannah Senesh archives at the National Library of Israel (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
November 30, 2020, 3:57 pm
Hannah Senesh archives, including handwritten poems, come to National Library
Access will be available to the diaries, songs, letters and notebooks of the Hungarian-born heroine and poet
By Jessica Steinberg
Julie Robertson painted a mural of Hannah Senesh in downtown San Diego. (Courtesy of Robertson)
October 5, 2019, 7:47 pm
Why a Japanese-American artist painted a mural of Nazi fighter Hannah Senesh
Christian artist Julie Robertson learned about one of the country’s national heroes earlier this year during a trip to Israel, says she was struck by her bravery
By Josefin Dolsten
Lexi Rabadi stars in the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene's one-woman show, 'Hannah Senesh (a play with music and song).' (Victor Nechay/Properpix.com)
July 29, 2019, 4:28 am
Spy/poet Hannah Senesh brought back to life in one-woman show in New York
Running till August 18, play by David Schechter launches Folksbiene’s 104th season with rare English production, alongside the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s huge Auschwitz exhibit
By Jordan Hoffman
Dozens of Israeli paratroopers land in Poland during the US-led 'Swift Response' exercise in Europe in June 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 13, 2018, 5:03 pm
Historic resonance as Israeli paratroopers train over Germany, Poland
Officers note ‘moving’ symbolism of Jewish soldiers operating in Polish territory, where Nazi death camps once stood
By Judah Ari Gross
A screen capture of the January 29, 2018 episode of 'Eretz Nehederet' (Keshet)
February 3, 2018, 11:11 am
Netanyahu pans satirical TV show over sketch that upset Holocaust survivor
PM says Eretz Nehederet showed ‘lack of values’ with skit lampooning Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, asylum seekers
By ToI Staff
Singer and poet Yehonatan Geffen at the EMI, the Israel Artists Association, lifetime achievement awards ceremony, held in Petah Tikva, February 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 28, 2018, 12:50 pm
Beleaguered poet apologizes for comparing Palestinian protester to Anne Frank
Yehonathan Geffen says he only wanted to raise awareness about occupation; defense minister, who had sought to ban his songs, declares all is forgiven
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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April 27, 2017, 1:19 pm
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