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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Senesh, Hanna ___ 1921-1944 ___ Hungarian ___ writer soldier BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Hannah was born in Budapest, the daughter of playwright Bela Senesh (who died when Hannah was about six) and his wife Katherine. She appears to have inherited her father's literary talent since wrote plays for school productions, poetry, and, from the age of 13, a diary. She attended a Protestant high school, where one of her teachers was the Chief Rabbi of Budapest, Imre Benoschofsky, and an ardent Zionist. As a result of his influence, she joined a Zionist youth group. She then went to a Girls' Agricultural School in Palestine. In 1942, however, with the war raging, she was anxious to return to Europe and help her fellow Jews. She was one of the first women volunteers to join a parachutist group in the British Royal Air Force. In 1944, she parachuted into Yugoslavia, and, with the aid of a partisan group, crossed the Hungarian border. There, however, she was captured by the Germans, imprisoned, and tortured. She was convicted of treason, and executed by a firing squad - at just 23 years of age. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1934-1944 ___ religious military family childhood Nazism Palestine WEB TEXT LINKS lots of extracts a few quotes ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary October 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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