Hannah Szenes (1921-1944) a poet and Special Operations Executive in WW11

Hannah Szenes or Chanah Senesh was a Jew born in Budepest, Hungary.

She joined the British Army in 1943 as part of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She trained to be a Special Operation’s Executive - SOE . She was learning to be a spy.
After training in Egypt she parachuted into Europe near the Hungarian border. Having spent 3 months helping people fight against the Nazis she tried to cross into Hungary.

Everything went wrong. She was captured, arrested and tortured as a spy. For 3 months she was tortured but revealed no information about her mission. They even threatened to kill her mother. She was tried, found guilty executed by firing squad on 7 th November 1944, she was just 23 years of age

Hannah is regarded as a national heroine in Israel. Her poetry is widely known . The Yad Hna kibbutz as well as several streets are named after her.
She has been largely been forgotten in Hungary, her birth place.

Sources used
Wikipedia
Herstory by Katherine Halligan