“Horrible! Yesterday war broke out between Italy and Abyssinia. Almost everyone is frightened the British will intervene and that as a result there will be war in Europe. Just thinking about it is terrible. The papers are already listing the dead. I can’t understand people; how quickly they forget. Don’t they know that the whole world is still groaning from the curse of the last World War? Why this killing? Why must youth be sacrificed on a bloody scaffold when it could give so much that is good and beautiful to the world if it could just be allowed to tread peaceful roads?”
– Hannah Szenes, October 4, 1935
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Notes
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Hannah Szenes Quote Sources
- “Hannah Szenes in the garden of her home in Budapest.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Beit Hannah Senesh, https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1051010
- Piercy, Marge, and Grossman, Roberta. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary. United States, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2007.
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