Lyric discussion by GoodbyeGorgeous 

My bad, gingerale. That was supposed to be a comment.

This piece was written by a woman named Hannah Szenes. She was a Hungarian Jew who was taught by the British army how to parachute into Yugoslavia during WWII so that the Jews in Hungary could be saved from being deported to Auschwitz.

It's so beautiful.

Yeah, the composer went back to her home country to try and rescue her mother from the Holocaust, but, in a bout of tragic irony, she was captured and murdered by the Nazis and her mother survived the Holocaust.

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