Blessed Is the Match
Show: Independent Lens --> Season: 11 - Season 11
AirDate: 4/13/2010
Runtime: 60
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Overview: Joan Allen narrates this film 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, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis.