Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
...shore. Members of the shore party went into the water and ranged themselves along the ropes. Then, by means of this human life line, some two hundred souls were relayed, arm to arm, from the sea to the land. These were men of the Hagansh, the Jowish Resistance Movement...
...said that neither the Nazis nor the Petain government was successful in suppressing teachers in their criticisms of the Germans, although they did suspend the University for three months in 1942 and many of the professors were arrested. The Latin Quarter in Paris was a hotbed of the underground movement according to Garnot, who personally assisted in the cleanup of Germans in the wooded areas near Versailles in August...
...Wallace himself, by becoming the head of a magazine which during the past two years has begun to resume its place as the most articulate exponent of progressive political action in the United States, he will be able to retain the mantle of leadership of the American liberal movement. Both Wallace and the New Republic are to be congratulated on the appointment...
...fundamental purpose is the building of Christian character, and all the departments of our organization-physical, educational and social-are important as they contribute to this central objective. We must never lose sight of our central purpose, and if we ever do, the Y movement will be dead...