In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh 1921-1944 - Tapa blanda

This account of the short, heroic life of Hannah Senesh is extraordinarily moving and informative....The author lets us see into the soul of this dedicated young woman. --Jewish Currents Nov. 1985

Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Thanks to Linda Atkinson s conviction and skill, the flame endures [in this] impelling and moving biography of a remarkable 20th century heroine....This is a book that will long live in the heart of the reader....written with passion, tenderness, insight... --Horn Book Honor List 1986

Linda Atkinson...portrays a girl one would like to have known...the kind of person prison guards bend rules for....[yet] the biography never becomes a merely personal drama. Hannah s story goes hand in hand with that of all European Jews, and Miss Atkinson s account of their fates is as skillful as her re-creation of Hannah s life. She distills complicated political issues without oversimplifying, and balances what can be the impersonal magnitude of the Holocaust with well-chosen eyewitness accounts....eloquent --Heyden White, New York Times, Oct. 15, 1985

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award when it was first published in 1985, In Kindling Flame tells the impassioned story of a young woman who left Europe for Palestine in 1939, when she was just 18, but returned five years later on a parachute mission to rescue other Jews. The mission cost Hannah Senesh her life - she was executed at age 23 by a firing squad in Budapest in 1944. The book presents a moving portrait of a gifted, courageous young woman in a terrible time. In Kindling Flame also presents a gripping history of the Holocaust, Jewish resistance, and the Zionists' effort to create a Jewish national home in British-controlled Palestine.