Hannah

Author(s): John J. Wooten
A piece of dramatic documentary theatre, crafted around the historically accurate events in the life of Hannah Senesh, a paratrooper during World War II, who volunteered for a mission with the British armed forces to evacuate Jewish citizens out of her native Hungary.
Format: Drama

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Zella Fry Theater at Kean University, 2011
Original Source Material: Under the title Hannah Senesh: The Mission Home, an earlier version of the play was first seen at the Forum Theater in Metuchen in 1998.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Hiding | Escape | Women and the Holocaust

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