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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Why Jewish heroine Hannah Senesh is having her moment of renewed interest
Description: The name Hannah Senesh is a household legend for many Israelis, and also for Diaspora Jews of a certain generation–especially those who attended Jewish school. Over the years, there have been books and films and documentaries about her, and even a recent re-enactment of Senesh’s famous 1944 military commando mission when she and dozens of Jewish volunteers parachuted back into Nazi occupied Europe to try to rescue tens of thousands of imperilled Jews and also save downed Allied pilots.
But Canadian journalist and author Douglas Century, of Calgary, felt there was more to discover about the brave Hungarian teen...