<p>Hannah Szenes on her first day in Palestine. Haifa, Palestine, September 19, 1939.</p>
<p>Between 1943 and 1945, a group of Jewish men and women from Palestine who had volunteered to join the British army parachuted into German-occupied Europe. Their mission was to organize resistance to the Germans and aid in the rescue of Allied personnel. Hannah Szenes was among these volunteers. </p>
<p>Szenes was captured in <a href="/narrative/6229">German-occupied Hungary</a> and executed in Budapest on November 7, 1944, at the age of 23. </p>