However, her poignant speech during the trial was taken as a personal affront by the officer in charge, Colonel Simon, who came into her cell on the morning of November 7 th and presented her with two options: to beg for a pardon, or to face death by a firing squad.
Szenes worked in the kitchen and in the kibbutz laundry, and the difficulties that she encountered are echoed in her diary.
The infamous West End for those crazy nights out but also lots of sunset bars such as my favourite which is the perfect place to sit with a cool glass of gin and tonic after a busy day filming and just watch the world go by.
Her father, Bela Szenes 1874—1929 , who died when she was a child, had been a well-known writer and dramatist and her mother, Katharine, an elegant homemaker.