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Milena Jesenská ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlɛna ˈjɛsɛnskaː]; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Early life. Jesenská was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic).
Milena – dcera profesora Jesenského. Rodina Jesenských dala medicíně několik velkých osobností. Letos v květnu Komora na pražském Olšanském hřbitově uctila památku nadějných stomatologů, synovců prof. J. Jesenského – bratrů Jana a Jiřího Jesenských a jejich manželek. Všichni čtyři byli popraveni Němci 24.
Milena Jesenská was born on 10 August 1896 as the daughter of Jan Jesenský, a prosperous doctor who alleged that he was descended from Jan Jesenius, the first professor of medicine at Charles University and one of the Protestants executed in the Old Town Square in 1621. She was educated at the Minerva school, the first gymnasium for girls in ...
Jul 1, 1998 · Milena Jesenska was born Aug. 10, 1896, to a well-to-do Prague family. Her father, Jan Jesensky, was a Czech university professor of dentistry. Her frail, chronically ill mother, Milena Hejzlarova, died when Milena was 16. Dr. Jesensky, by all accounts a tyrannical and pompous man, could not understand his incorrigible offspring.
Oct 8, 2021 · Yet Czech national Milena Jesenská was one thing above all else: a successful journalist and resistance fighter. Twenty-four-year-old Milena Jesenská starts writing her first newspaper articles as a correspondent for a Prague newspaper in Vienna.
Milena, as well as many others, estimated that the Nazis would soon conquer the whole country and that the ideological dissidents residing there, mainly Jews, would be the first to be persecuted. Milena Jesenská therefore began to encourage her Jewish colleagues to cross the border to Poland and head to the west.
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Milena Jesenská (1896–1944) was an outstanding journalist and mediator between the Czech and the German cultures in Bohemia as well as an astute political commentator. She was detained in the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbrück for her political involvement and resistance, where she died in 1944.
