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Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc.
Blessed Is the Match: Directed by Roberta Grossman. With Peter Hay, Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Michael Berenbaum, Shimon Peres. The story of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian poet who was captured by the Nazis, while trying to rescue Jews in WWII.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Roberta Grossman
- 2009-01-28
Jan 28, 2009 · Released Jan 28, 2009 1h 26m Documentary CTA List. 68% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings. After Hungarian poet Hannah Senesh leaves the safety of Palestine to rescue Jews in...
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- Documentary
- Roberta Grossman
Jan 28, 2009 · Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, she joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary.
- (7)
- Roberta Grossman
- Not Rated
- Peter Hay
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh. In 1944, 22-year-old Hannah Senesh parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe with a small group of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. Theirs was the only military rescue mission for Jews that occurred in World War II.
- Roberta Grossman
- Joan Allen, Meri Roth, Marcela Nohynkova
Jan 27, 2009 · The child of a privileged Hungarian-Jewish family, Senesh emigrated to Palestine, then returned to Nazi-occupied Europe as part of a bold military operation to rescue fellow Jews. Senesh’s team...
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Jan 28, 2009 · Summary. The meteoric emotional and intellectual development of Hungarian Jewish poet Hannah Senesh coincided neatly with the rapid-fire rise of anti-Semitic racial hostilities...
