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Hannah Senesh remembered

Zionist heroine Hannah Senesh was remembered in Budapest on the 63rd anniversary of her execution.

Senesh was executed by Hungarian Nazis on Nov. 7, 1944 after parachuting behind enemy lines during World War II and being arrested as a spy.

The memorial ceremony was organized by the Budapest Holocaust Museum and Documentation Center in the Hannah Senesh Park, named for the Budapest-born Senesh who as a young girl immigrated to Palestine and served during World War II as a British soldier, parachuting first into Italy and Yugoslavia, and then into Hungary in 1944.

Two of Senesh’s Hungarian cousins took part in the ceremony, as well as Israeli Embassy First Secretary Yahel Vilan, representatives of the Budapest Holocaust Museum and members of the Hungarian Jewish community.

No Hungarian officials attended the ceremony.

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