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A very important story she's one of the few people and we talked before about how I overuse
the word fighter in the book and I love using the word fighter and I changed the word fighter
in many entries and I left it in in Hannah Senesh's and this was basically obviously
during the time of the Holocaust and Hannah Senesh actually leaves Yugoslavia and goes
back to what is now Israel and then finds out what's happening finds out what's happening
with Hitler and finds out what's happened with the Nazis and says you know my mother
still lives there and I need to go save her and she becomes part of this British paratrooping
troop and she's the woman that's on there all these young men and there's Hannah Senesh
and she parachutes down and makes her way they're gonna help Jewish people who are trying
to help the resistance she you know she's Jewish herself she knows what it's like to
be spit on she knows what it's like for teachers to make fun of her she knows what it's like
to be called the dirty Jew and she goes back to help others right she can stay in Israel
and she can just live her life out she can live peacefully and she says I gotta go help
them she gets captured very quickly and after she's captured what they want is they want
her radio codes the British radio codes they gave her and if they can get the radio codes
from Hannah Senesh they can crack those codes and listen in on what the allies are doing
and they say to her we're going to torture you and Hannah Senesh won't break and they
say we're going to bring your mother in and we're going to kill her and she won't break
and they punch out her teeth and she won't break and they finally say to het you're going
to be executed and we're going to shoot you if you don't give us these radio codes and
she says you are never going to get these codes and she in fact said to them if you're
going to shoot me don't give me the blind fold if you're going to kill me you're going
to have to look me in the eye and they raised these guns young this is a girl this is a
young girl and they raised these guns at Hanna Senesh and without a blindfold she looks at
them and she takes those bullets and she dies but to me she live on forever This excerpt
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