Beyond Kafka’s letters: 130 years since the birth of journalist and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská

Name: Beyond Kafka’s letters: 130 years since the birth of journalist and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská
Uploaded: 2026-08-13T20:59:39+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: Milena Jesenská is known around the world primarily through Franz Kafka's letters to her. Yet her own life story is just as compelling: a pioneering journalist who stood up to Nazism and paid for it with her life in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Milena Jesenská was born in Prague in 1896. See more here.

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Milena Jesenská is known around the world primarily through Franz Kafka’s letters to her. Yet her own life story is just as compelling: a pioneering journalist who stood up to Nazism and paid for it with her life in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Milena Jesenská was born in Prague in 1896.

See more here.