Hungarian Zionist martyr remembered in Budapest

The memorial entitled "Stone of Thoughts" carries a citation from Szenes, and was unveiled by Minister of Welfare and Labour Laszlo Herczog.

  

Born in Budapest in 1921, Szenes, known as Chana Senesh in

Israel, joined the Zionist movement as a young woman and emigrated to Palestine in 1939, trying to convince other Hungarian Jews to do the same to flee from Nazism. Five years later, she returned to Hungary as a member of an elite parachute unit dropped in by the British in an attempt to rescue Jews from imminent Nazi deportation. She was captured, imprisoned, tortured, and executed by a firing squad on November 7, 1944.

   

Szenes is honoured as a national hero in Israel.