Today is Holocaust Remembrance day. Let us open our hearts to their memory. Here is a song for your reflection today. The words are written by Hannah Szenes, some of her story is below. Hannah Szenes (Senesh) (July 17, 1921 - November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew who emigrated to Israel in 1939. She was one of 37 Jews who was trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary, who were about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz. Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, imprisoned, and tortured, but she refused to reveal details of her mission and was eventually tried and executed by firing squad on November 7, 1944.
She is regarded as a national heroine in Israel. She kept diary entries and was a poet and playwright; one of her more well-known poems, Eili (“My God, My God”) was set to music by David Zahavi.
