Olga: Revolutionary and Martyr Book

Olga Benario, German and Jewish, was one of the most remarkable political activists of the twentieth century. She was the beautiful, willful daughter of a liberal Munich lawyer. At the age of nineteen, she masterminded a daring prison raid to free her lover, the Communist intellectual Otto Braun. Together they escaped to Moscow and rose within the ranks of the international Communist movement. At twenty-six, she became a bodyguard to the legendary Brazilian Communist guerrilla leader Luis Carlos Prestes, and the two began a whirlwind romance. Incognito, they crossed Europe, then North and South America to Brazil, where Prestes attempted to launch a revolution against the Fascist regime. But it was not to be - Olga, then pregnant, was captured and deported to Nazi Germany by the Brazilian government. Eventually she would come to her tragic end in the Bernburg concentration camp, fighting for her ideals and the loves of her life until the very end.