Blessed is the match the life and death of Hannah Senesh
2009
DVD
Tells the life story of Hungarian-born poet and Holocaust heroine Hannah Senesh, who was only 22 when she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe as part of a rescue mission to save the Jews of Hungary. Dramatizations, interviews, photographs, newsreel footage, letters, and diary entries are used to illuminate Senesh's early years, her immigration to Palestine, her involvement in the perilous rescue mission, and her capture and eventual execution in Hungary.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR.
Other Title: Life and death of Hannah Senesh [DVD]
Notes:
- "Women in Film Foundation"--Container.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
- Music by Todd Boekelheide; editor, Blake West ; Director of photography, Dyanna Taylor.
- Narrated by Joan Allen.
- DVD.
Control Number: 696306
Publisher: [Berkeley, Calif.] : Katahdin Productions, [2008]Series:
Subjects:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Hungary.
- Jewish women -- Palestine -- Biography.
- Jews -- Persecutions -- Hungary.
- Jews, Hungarian -- Palestine -- Biography.
- Poets, Hungarian -- Biography.
- Senesh, Hannah, 1921-1944.
- Women poets, Hungarian -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Hungary.
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