Benario family: copy genealogical papers and copy papers re Olga Benario-Prestes
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Benario family: copy genealogical papers and copy papers re Olga Benario-Prestes
Olga Benario was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals in Munich in 1911. At the age of 16 she was already a member of the Communist party. In 1926 she, along with others, stormed the Berlin-Moabit district gaol in order to free some comrades, after which action she went into hiding. In 1928 she went to Moscow and in 1934 she accompanied the Brasilian revolutionary, Luiz Carlos Prestes (whom she later married), to Brazil where she took part in the resistance to the regime of president Vargas. However, such was the affinity between Hitler and Vargas, that, once captured, she was deported back to Nazi Germany where she was interned in the concentration camp Lichtenburg. She was gassed in the concentration camp at Bernburg an der Saale in 1943 at the age of 34.
Benario family: copy genealogical papers and copy papers re Olga Benario-Prestes