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Events on Wednesday 17 May 1944 1
1896 – 1944Milena Jesenská (1896-1944)Died 17 May 1944, aged 47Czech journalist and translator, known as the recipient of Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena. She was active in the resistance after the German occupation. She died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.