# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/milena-jesenska
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:27.072Z

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name: "Milena Jesenská"
slug: "milena-jesenska"
description: "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."
tagline: "Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944)"
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deathDate: "1944-05-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.