Hannah Szenes grew up in a loving home filled with books, plays, and music. Unfortunately, the rise of the Nazis in her native Hungary forced Hannah to immigrate to Palestine, where she became an ardent Zionist pioneer. Haunted by the murder of the Jews by Hitler, she risked her own life to become a resistance fighter, vowing to save as many Jewish lives as possible. This is the true, tragic story of a young girl who gave her life in the struggle to save the doomed Jews of Europe. "Heart-piercing and soul-searing" International Jewish HeraldA 1987 Notable Book in the Field of Social Studies A 1987 National Jewish Book Award Finalist. "A compelling biography" The Los Angeles Times Before she jumps, sh shuts her eyes and reminds herself she must succeed. Then she hurls herself into the cold night air, falling, falling, the wind whistling past her ears, pushing into her face, falling as the earth below seems to grow larger, rushing up to meet her. Faster, faster, faster. Then with a rough, sudden jerk her parachute opens, and for the last few thousand feet Hannah, the Jewish girl poet, floats gracefully into Nazi-held Yugoslavia. Maxine Rose Schur is an award-winning author of both novels and picture books, including The Circlemaker, Day of Delight, a Parent's Choice Honor Book, and its sequel, When I Left My Village, which was given the Sugarman Family Award for excellence and the 1996 Sydney Taylor Book Award for the year's most outstanding contribution to Jewish Children's Literature. Her YA novel, Sacred Shadows was a 1997 National Jewish Book Award Finalist.