Ordinary Heroes
By Peter Hay.
Description
On November 7, 1944, a twenty three year old poet and pacifist named Chana Szenes was executed as a spy. Today, she is a national heroine of Israel. The tragic life and often contradictory personality of Chana Szenes reflect the very essence of Israel today: tough-minded but compassionate; idealistic yet activist; serious but with a mischievous sense of fun. At the age of seventeen, Chana had become a Zionist and emigrated alone from her comfortable Budapest home to the swamps of Palestine to build a new country. But as the Holocaust raged throughout Europe, Chana's conscience and h...
ISBN(s)
0399131523, 9780399131523
