Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Buy Tickets Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh Director: Roberta Grossman Country: Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, released 2008 Duration: 85 min., Video Language: English Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature 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 -- the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed