At the height of the war, 37 volunteers parachuted into the heart of occupied Europe for a dangerous mission. They were part of a group of volunteers from Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) who had joined the war effort against the Nazis in order to save their Jewish brethren in Europe. One of them was Hannah Szenes. Hannah Szenes immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 and joined a kibbutz, but as the extent of the Holocaust was becoming clear, she could not stand aside – she volunteered to parachut