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Hannah Szenes-Holocaust Hero Hannah Szenes, born on July 17,1921 in Budapest Hungary, was a Holocaust hero. She grew up as a Jew and though she didn't live in Germany, she felt that she had to fight for her religion. When Hannah was 6 years old her father died, which left her with her mom, brother, and grandparents. They wanted her to go to school, so they sent her. She was accepted into a protestant private school for Jews and Catholics. According to Wikipedia, Hannah had to pay twice the tuition to get in because she was considered “special” because of the way she looked. Hannah was also made fun of because she had speech problems. That is something she looked back to when she thought about fighting for her people. She thought it wasn't fair for certain people to be picked on like that. By the time she got out of school, World War ll had started.

Her family had been talking about it at home and that is how she heard about it. Once she did, she immediately felt she had to fight. Hannah then joined a small group of paratroops, and then went to the army and fought. Not only did she fight, but she also spoke about how her people were being treated wrong, and how that was not fair. While she was fighting, she noticed that the war was changing who she was. She felt stronger and independent. Then, one day she was captured. The person that captured her, captured her because they did not like that she was standing up for the Jews. She fought the person that captured her. In result, she got arrested, and lived the rest of her life in a cell. While she was in her cell, she wrote a poem. It said, One, Two,Three,Eight feet long Two strides across, the rest is dark Life is a fleeting question mark One,Two,Three maybe another week Or the next month may still find me here But death I feel is very near I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered the most The dice were cast, I Lost

People found this a week after she died on November 7th, 1944. They were Jewish, and they honored her. People felt that she fought because she knew what it felt like to be called out. People also think that she fought because she wanted everyone to treat each other respectfully.That is what I learned about Hannah Szenes. I feel like she is a hero to all Jews and to a lot of other people. She fought, and died for us. That is why she is remembered as a hero, a Holocaust Hero.

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“Hannah Senesh.” __Jewish Virtual Library.__ American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise.2014.Web.4 December 2014.

Baumel,Judith Tydor."Hannah Szenes."Jewish Women Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.1 March 2009.Web.4 December 2014.

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