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So young to die

the story of Hannah Senesh

by Candice F. Ransom

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Hannah Senesh was born in 1921 in Hungary. In 1943 she was accepted by the British Air Force to be part of one of the most courageous rescue attempts of World War II -- parachuting back into enemy territory to rescue Allied pilots and Jews, including her mother. This is the story of a daring, brave, young woman.

Juvenile literatureBiographyJewish resistanceJewsWorld War, 1939-1945Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)WomenChildren's fictionTeachers, fiction