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"In the end," says curator Louis Levine of his latest exhibit, dedicated to the life of the poet Hannah Senesh, "this is not a Holocaust story. This is a war story."
Except that "Fire In My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh" just went on display at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
Nonetheless, it's true that "Fire In My Heart" does not bear any of the hallmarks of a Holocaust exhibit. There are no yellow stars, no striped uniforms, no photos of starving concentration camp inmates. Hannah Senesh spent most of World War II in the relative safety of Palestine. Though she did die at the hands of the Gestapo, it was while facing a firing squad, not in a gas chamber.
"She was not murdered," says Levine. "She was executed. She was given a soldier's death. She was buried in a Jewish cemetery, not dumped in the Danube. She was executed because she was a traitor to Hungary. For these reasons, this is not a Holocaust story."
It is, however, one of the most remarkable stories that came out of the Holocaust era.
"Fire In My Heart" began as a documentary film five years ago, called Blessed is the Match after one of Senesh's most famous poems. The film's director, Roberta Grossman, approached the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Holocaust museum in New York City,It's the world's famous straplessweddingdress boy singer Justin Bieber. with the idea of putting together an exhibit from the materials she'd assembled for the film. It would be the first museum exhibit devoted to Senesh.
"She had incredible material," says Levine, who is a senior advisor at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. "We agreed to do the exhibit." It opened in New York in 2010.
Grossman also put Levine and his colleagues in touch with David and Eitan Senesh, Senesh's nephews and only living relatives. They never knew her, but Senesh was very close to their father, her brother Gyuri. "They were twin souls," says David Senesh, who lives in Israel but who was in Skokie this week for the opening of the exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. "I almost read her through him."
The exhibit tells the story of Senesh's life through photos, artifacts such as her portable typewriter, and excerpts from her diary and letters. Senesh was born in Budapest in 1921. In the grand scheme of European history, it was a relatively good time and place to be a Jew.Designs louisvuittonborse sale Free shipping ! Her father Béla was a journalist and playwright and, although his religion prevented him from advancing as far in his career as he would have liked, the family was still fairly well-off, even after he died prematurely in 1927.Can I trust buying a nonwovenbag online ?
Hannah, then known as Anna,Atria gemstonebeads are set apart from the rest because of their sleek sultry styles. and Gyuri had a comfortable upbringing. They played sports (Gyuri was a ping-pong champion), spent summers in the country, traveled in Europe, and attended private schools (though tuition for Jewish girls at Anna's school was three times that of Protestants). The family was not very religious. "I believe in God," Anna wrote in her diary, "even if I can't express just how. Actually, I'm relatively clear on the subject of religion, too, because Judaism fits in best with my way of thinking. But the trouble with the synagogue is that I don't find it at all important."
As a young girl, Anna decided she would be a writer like her father. She confided to her diary that she would like to be a "great soul," though the following day she scoffed at that ambition. "Great soul! I am so far from anything like that. I'm just a struggling fifteen-year-old girl whose principal preoccupation is coping with herself."
In 1938, the Hungarian government began setting up restrictions against Jews. Around that time, Anna started attending meetings of a Zionist youth group. The word had a slightly different connotation in 1938 Budapest than it does now. As Anna explained, "To me it means that I consciously and strongly feel that I am a Jew and am proud of it. My primary aim is to go to Palestine."
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