DOUGLAS CENTURY/ Crash of the Heavens

Sunday Feb 22, 5:00pm 
DOUGLAS CENTURY / Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh And the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II

In Conversation with Cafe McMullen
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE

In 1939, at just eighteen, Hannah emigrated from Hungary to the British Mandate for Palestine,
where she dreamed of being a poet and a schoolteacher. Instead, she became a poet and a para
trooper... Five years after fleeing Europe, Hannah parachuted back into occupied territory as a
freedom fighter with a most crucial role: the wireless operator tasked with sending and deciphering
top-secret British radio codes. Captured after crossing into her native Hungary, she refused to give
up her radio codes, despite months of torture. Her final act of defiance—choosing to die rather than
beg for clemency—cemented her legendary status as the “Jewish Joan of Arc.”

DOUGLAS CENTURY is the author and coauthor of numerous bestselling books including Hunting
El Chapo, Under and Alone etc. Born and raised in Calgary, he is a veteran investigative journalist who
has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian.