Milena Jesenská

Milena Jesenská
Jesenská in the 1920s
Born(1896-08-10)10 August 1896
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died17 May 1944(1944-05-17) (aged 47)
Ravensbrück, Germany
OccupationsJournalist, writer, editor, translator
Known forResistance activities during the occupation of Czechoslovakia
Spouses
ChildrenJana Černá

Milena Jesenská (Czech: [ˈmɪlɛna ˈjɛsɛnskaː]; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. She is noted for her correspondence with the author Franz Kafka and was one of the first to translate his work from the German language. After the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, she joined a resistance movement to help Jews and other refugees. She died in Ravensbrück, a Nazi prison camp.

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