Milena Jesenská
✓ Source-basedfallingCzech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944)
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.
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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.
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