“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”

— Hannah Senesh · Life quote

“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”

— HANNAH SENESH

Poet and paratrooper · 1921 – 1944

Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was a Hungarian Jewish poet who emigrated to Palestine and volunteered as a British paratrooper in World War II. Captured and executed in Budapest at 23, she left behind poems including 'Eli, Eli' that made her a national heroine of Israel.

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