Szenes Hannah

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Szenes Hannah 
17/07/1921 07/11/1944 
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - v. 3/4, p. 1447 
Jewish paraschutist and poet, emigrated to Palestine to study. In 1944 parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia to offer aid to European Jewry. Captured in Hungary within hours after crossing the border, imprisoned , tortured and executed bu Hungarian authorities. 

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