BLESSED IS THE MATCH

10+ AWARDS | "Absorbing" - Boston Globe | "A lasting elegy to self-sacrifice" - Los Angeles Times Jewish Studies • Jewish History • History • Music • Music History • Musicology  • European History • Holocaust • Hungary • Israel • Palestine • Women’s History • Poetry Date of Completion: 2008 | Run Time: 78 minutes | Language: English | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript  | Director: Roberta Grossman | Producers: Roberta Grossman, Marta Kauffman, Lisa Thomas, Sophie Sartain, Lisa Hofheimer, and Pavlina Zipkova At only 22, Hungarian poet Hannah Senesh made the ultimate sacrifice – having already escaped Nazi-occupied Europe for Palestine and freedom, she returned, parachuting in behind enemy lines in a valiant effort to save Hungary’s Jews, including her mother, from deportation to Auschwitz and certain death. Captured immediately upon crossing the border into Hungary, Hannah was tortured and taken to a prison in Budapest, yet she refused to reveal the coordinates of her fellow resist