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Hannah Szenes

1921 - 1944

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Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; Hebrew: חנה סנש; Hungarian: Szenes Anna; 17 July 1921 – 7 November 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz. Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border by Hungarian gendarmes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hannah Szenes has received more than 479,775 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Hannah Szenes is the 1,718th most popular writer (down from 1,608th in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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  • 480k

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  • 56.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hannah Szenes ranks 1,718 out of 5,755. Before her are Jordan of Saxony, Vasily Shukshin, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Guillaume de Lorris, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Clark Ashton Smith. After her are Symeon the Metaphrast, Jules Romains, José Carlos Mariátegui, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Arthur Machen, and Dexippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Hannah Szenes ranks 114. Before her are Ariel Ramírez, Jean Behra, Géza Anda, Ágnes Keleti, Wolfgang Borchert, and Arthur Grumiaux. After her are Esther Williams, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Shin Kyuk-ho, Alex Haley, Ralph Asher Alpher, and Pierre Clostermann. Among people deceased in 1944, Hannah Szenes ranks 103. Before her are Chaim Rumkowski, Tanya Savicheva, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Nikolai Polikarpov, Bernardino Machado, and Felix Nussbaum. After her are Pavel Haas, Fritz Witt, Emanuel Ringelblum, Heinz Brandt, Ethel Smyth, and Walter Heitz.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Hannah Szenes ranks 194 out of 866. Before her are Máté Fenyvesi (1933), Valamir (420), Zoltán of Hungary (896), Lajos Tichy (1935), Attila József (1905), and Michu Meszaros (1939). After her are Margaret of Hungary (1175), András Schiff (1953), Mór Jókai (1825), Mihály Lantos (1928), Viktor Barna (1911), and György Konrád (1933).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Hannah Szenes ranks 16. Before her are Magda Szabó (1917), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Béla Balázs (1884), Péter Nádas (1942), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), and Attila József (1905). After her are Mór Jókai (1825), Viktor Barna (1911), György Konrád (1933), Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Janus Pannonius (1434), and Kató Lomb (1909).

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