When the Hungarian authorities realized that Szenes would not be broken, they arrested her mother and the two women came face to face with each other for the first time in almost five years.
Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance.
Ordinary Heroes: Chana Szenes and the Dream of Zion.
All very random but the first of many lasting memories during my visits to Ibiza.
In 1943 Jewish agency officials asked Szenes to join a clandestine military operation — she became a member of the Palmah and participated in a course for paratroopers.
In September 1944, after Katharine Szenes was suddenly released, she spent most of her waking hours seeking legal assistance for her daughter, who—being a Hungarian national—was to be tried as a spy.