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Blessed is the Match: The Life & Death of Hannah Senesh
Tuesday, April 28, 6:30 PM at SIFF CINEMA AT MCCAW HALL
Director(s): Roberta Grossman
Country: United States
Year: 2008
Length: 85 MINUTES
Format: DigiBeta
Language: English
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Combining reenactments, interviews and archival materials, this inspiring documentary narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen commemorates the life of the Hungarian poet and resistance fighter, Hannah Senesh, who became a national heroine in Israel. Enjoying a middle-class upbringing in 1930s Budapest, Senesh knew little of Judaism until rising anti-Semitism prompted her migration to Palestine. After the outbreak of World War II, she voluntarily enlisted in a desultory mission to liberate Hungarian Jews -- the only Holocaust rescue attempt of its kind.
Topics: Biography, History, Holocaust, WWII, Resistence Fighters, Women
PRINT SOURCE: Katahdin Productions
WEBSITE: www.katahdin.org
ADDRESS:
717 N. Highland Ave. #9Los Angeles, 90038, CA, USA
PHONE: 323.337.1177
CONTACT:
Roberta Grossman, Director, rgrossman@katahdinproductions.comRic Ruiz, rruiz@katahdinproductions.com
Sponsors
Community Partners: Temple Beth Am, The Summit at First Hill & Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center/WSHERC
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