Thursday. September 13,1990 — THE BULLETIN — 33
HEROINE HANNAH SENESH
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lation that^^ould not go away. What kept her going was the certainty that "I had done the right thing. This is where my life's ambition-—1 might even say my vocation — binds me; because I would like to- feel that by being here I am fulfil-, ling a mission . . Hannah was basically a happy person because she had founds while still young, the purpose to her life, culminating in her final mission. ' Meanwhile her life con-
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sisted of back-breaking mono-tohous labor in the dairy, laundry and orchards of the Emek valley. Cut off from the impending catastrophe in Europe, she was growing fearful for George, studying in France, and for her mother in Budapest. After two years at the school, Hannah chose to join Kibbutz Sdot-Yam, a group of young idealists: "I have some kind of aversion to joining a settlement which has
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got pastJls initial hardships and has begun to enjoy the fruits of its difficult years. 1 don't want anything ready-made." ■
The next few months she worlced day and night. During her years on the Kibbutz, she thought about joining the British Army or, a more relevant alternative to cure her feelings of helplessness, the PalHiiach, the striking force of the Haganah Jewish self-
defence units. In January 1943, with Hitler's Tinal solution' program in full swing, she was "suddenly struck by the idea of going to Hungary. 1 feel I must be there during these' days in order to help organize youthl ernigration, and also to get my mother out."
During a chance conversation six weeks later Hannah learned that the Palmach was organizing a unit for just such a mission. In her usual way, she totally immersed herself in the idea. But it took a whole year of waiting, preparing and training before she left for Egypt in British uniform. She managed to delay departure for a day to meet her brother George in Haifa whei^e he had just managed to arrive.
The parachutist commando group consisted of 31 men and Hannah^ Early March they were flown to liberated Italy and from there dropped_into_ n a z i - oc c1j p iedHf ITgos laviaT^ Hannah always volunteered to jump first. If she was afraid, she tried not to show it. Within a week of joining the partisans in the Yugoslav mountains, news reached them that the Germans had -Ojccupied Hungary, From that moment Hannah knew no rest.
During the three months that Hannah and her group spent with the partisans, Adolf Eichmann and his Hungarian collaborators deported almost 300,000 Jews. Each day 12,000 were taken by freight-cars to Auschwitz where 90 percent were murdered immediately. The Germans were losing the war except that against innocent and defenceless Jews.
In thecourse of these weeks of utte7Trustration,T1annair changed from the laughing, singing, seemingly carefree young girl she had been. One of her close comrades on the mission, Yoel Palgi, noticed how "her eyes no longer sparkled. She was cold, sharp, her reasoning now razor-edged; she no longer.trusted strangers. She was the first to HEROINIC- Page36
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