Blessed Is the Match The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh DVDSCR XviD

Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh.DVDSCR.XviD-ORC

Opened: January 28, 2009 Runtime: 1 hr. 26 min.


Rated: NR Cast: Joan Allen Genre: Documentary





Synopsis:


Blessed is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who

became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in


Palestine in 1944, she joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only outside

rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and

ultimately executed by the Nazis. Her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal – first as a prisoner with Hannah

and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save Hannah. With

unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, this powerful story unfolds through the writings and photographs of

Hannah and Catherine Senesh....more