# Milena Jesenská

> She translated Kafka's stories into Czech — and then became a figure in his own legend through the letters they exchanged. Later she turned her skills toward another kind of rescue: forging papers and hiding refugees under Nazi occupation.

*Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/milena-jesenska

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1896-08-10
- **Died:** 1944-05-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Milena Jesenská was born 10 August 1896 in what is now the Czech Republic. She worked as a journalist, writer, and editor, and became one of the first translators to bring Franz Kafka's work from German into Czech. Their correspondence — initiated through the translation work — has since become a document in its own right, read alongside his fiction. After the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, she joined a resistance movement, helping Jews and other refugees escape. She was caught and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she died on 17 May 1944.

## Fame
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- **Category rank:** #128

## Topics
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