Hannah Szenes, a young Jewish soldier in the British Army who parachuted into Nazis occupied Europe with the goal of assisting her fellow Jews, wrote right before crossing the border into Hungary, “Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places. Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating. Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.” While Szenes successfully fought with Tito’s forces for three months, she would be captured upon crossing into Hungary, tortured cruelly by the Nazis and yet despite the knowledge that her own mother was at risk, she refused to give the Nazis any sort of information that could assist their war effort. Indeed, until her last breadth, when she was executed by a firing squad, Szenes demonstrated that she was nothing short of a flame glaring during the Jewish peoples’ darkest hours, fighting against the Nazis oppression until she was brutally murdered. ...
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