Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light
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Author: Maxine Rose Schur
Illustrator: Donna Ruff
Hannah Szenes was in her early twenties when she left the relative safety of her new home in what is now Israel to parachute into Yugoslavia to help free Jews there and in her native Hungary. Captured and branded a traitor, Szenes was tried and executed
as a spy and traitor. A Song of Light tells Hannah’s story and gives us the opportunity to meet a
remarkable young woman whose spirit and commitment to life led her to risk her own life to save others. The book includes many of the verses of poetry Hannah wrote and through her words we gain insight into a person who, from the age of six, was determined to “make a difference in the world.…”