She was caught at the border and interrogated, but refused to divulge information that could compromise the safety of her fellow paratroopers. In mid-March of 1944, Senesh parachuted into what was then Yugoslavia, crossing into Nazi-occupied Hungary two months later in an effort to save her fellow Jews from certain death. Her prescient words are now splashed in black across a tower at Israel’s central memorial for fallen paratroopers. I went because the voice called.” Weeks later, she would be asked to take part in a clandestine operation that would aid European Jewry during World War II. In December of 1942, 21-year-old Hannah Senesh wrote a poem beginning with the words, “A voice called.
