Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Milena Jesenská.
The record lists Milena Jesenská as Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944).
Milena Jesenská was born at Prague in 1896. Her recorded nationality is Austria–Hungary.
By occupation Milena Jesenská was writer, journalist and translator - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
The people honoured as Righteous Among the Nations were overwhelmingly ordinary; what distinguished them was that they acted while their neighbours did not.
Recognition: Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 2nd class (1996) and Righteous Among the Nations (1994).
Milena Jesenská died in 1944, aged 48. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 2nd class — 1996
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1994
- Worked as writer, journalist and translator
