Category Archives: Personal stories

9 Facts About Hannah Szenes

  1. Hannah Senesh was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews who lived in the British Mandate for Palestine (now Israel), who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of Hungary, who were about to be deported to the [...]

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Irena Sendler, Righteous Among the Nations – An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Humanitarian Principles

Irena Sendler, passed away on 12 May 2008, age 98 years. In 1965 Sendler was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous among the Nations. In 1991 Sendler was awarded Citizenship-of-Honor by the state of Israel. In 2007 considerable publicity accompanied Sendler’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.[12] While failed nominations for the [...]

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My Trip to Israel – Personal Story

Thank you so much for this month’s Hebrew Online Blog Post – reading about the beauty of the Dan Reserve – brought tears to my eyes as I recalled so fondly my trip to Israel November of 2008. By Hope JammesWhile I was a guest in your great nation, God opened up the Old Testament [...]

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