WRITER

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 518,595 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hannah Szenes is the 1,690th most popular writer (up from 1,714th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Hungary (up from 194th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

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  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hannah Szenes ranks 1,690 out of 7,302. Before her are François Pierre La Varenne, Eliza Orzeszkowa, James Clavell, Anna Leonowens, Eustathius of Thessalonica, and Branwell Brontë. After her are R. L. Stine, Arseny Tarkovsky, Marcel Schwob, Margherita Sarfatti, Oswald von Wolkenstein, and Alexander Belyaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Hannah Szenes ranks 108. Before her are Jean-Marie Balestre, Mary Douglas, John Money, Nobuo Matsunaga, George Roy Hill, and James Clavell. After her are Virgilio Barco Vargas, Oskar Gröning, Meir Amit, Maurice Richard, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Betty Friedan. Among people deceased in 1944, Hannah Szenes ranks 96. Before her are Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, Robert E. Park, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Peter Deunov, Manuel L. Quezon, and Aliya Moldagulova. After her are Agustín Barrios, Artur Phleps, Kurt Gerron, Nikolai Polikarpov, Ulrich von Hassell, and Andrey Sheptytsky.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Hannah Szenes ranks 191 out of 1,077. Before her are Péter Nádas (1942), István Sándorfi (1948), István Dobi (1898), Karl Goldmark (1830), Ferenc Gyurcsány (1961), and Jenő Buzánszky (1925). After her are Margaret of Hungary (1175), Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870), Ferenc Fricsay (1914), András Schiff (1953), Charles Simonyi (1948), and Franz Xaver von Zach (1754).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Hannah Szenes ranks 19. Before her are Magda Szabó (1917), Béla Balázs (1884), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), Mór Jókai (1825), Attila József (1905), and Péter Nádas (1942). After her are Viktor Barna (1911), György Konrád (1933), László Krasznahorkai (1954), Miloš Crnjanski (1893), Péter Esterházy (1950), and Rosika Schwimmer (1877).

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