✍ Scribed by Fernando Morais
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Olga Benario, German and Jewish, was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. Blessed with a genius for organization and an unwavering devotion, the beautiful, willful daughter of a liberal Munich lawyer crisscrossed the globe educating and activating legions to combat the worldwide plagues of nazism and fascism. At the age of nineteen, she masterminded a daring prison raid to free her then-lover, the Communist intellectual Otto Braun. Together they escaped to Moscow, where they quickly rose in the ranks of the international Communist movement. At twenty-six, she was chosen to serve as bodyguard to the legendary Brazilian Communist guerrilla leader Luis Carlos Prestes, who has been brought to Moscow for training and will soon become her lover. Traveling under assumed names, they crossed Europe and North and South America to reach Brazil, where Prestes would launch a revolution against the Fascist regime. Within months, they were seized by police. After six months of tirelessly continuing her activism from within Brazilian prisons, Olga, now seven months pregnant, was classified as extremely dangerous and was deported to the Nazi Germany. She was subsequently sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, and in February of 1942, she was sent to her death in the gas chambers at Bernburg. Reissued to coincide with a new film adaptation by the producers of "City of God," Olga is "a heartbreaking biography [that] is filled with high drama" (Publishers Weekly). "[Olga's] hunger for adventure, her sheer force of character, her passion and courage, called her to a strange and tragic destiny ... The saga of Olga Benario is aflame with the telltale glow of an author who has fallen hopelessly in love with his subject. Morais tells Benario's story so vividly, so convincingly, that we can readily understand why."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Fernando Morais is a journalist who also served as Minister of Culture for SAo Paulo province.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
El retrato de una mujer, de un amor imposible y de un país, Alemania, arrastrado hacia la guerra y la barbarie. Olga nace en la parte este del imperio alemán a finales del siglo XIX, sobrevive a dos guerras mundiales y muere en extrañas circunstancias. Su vida, a caballo entre dos siglos, transcurr
Olga Benario, German and Jewish, was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. Blessed with a genius for organization and an unwavering devotion, the beautiful, willful daughter of a liberal Munich lawyer crisscrossed the globe educating and activating legions to comba
El retrato de una mujer, de un amor imposible y de un país, Alemania, arrastrado hacia la guerra y la barbarie. Olga nace en la parte este del imperio alemán a finales del siglo XIX, sobrevive a dos guerras mundiales y muere en extrañas circunstancias. Su vida, a caballo entre dos siglos, transcurr
Da Breslavia, magnifica città polacca, a un piccolo villaggio della Pomerania in Germania: l'infanzia di Olga è segnata da un brusco trasferimento in seguito alla prematura scomparsa dei suoi genitori. Una stagione vissuta in compagnia di una nonna dura e scostante e dei sogni propri dei bambini pov
Olga nace en la parte este del imperio alemán a finales del siglo XIX, sobrevive a dos guerras mundiales y muere en extrañas circunstancias. Su vida, a caballo entre dos siglos, transcurre marcada por la historia. De familia pobre, es criada por su abuela tras la temprana desaparición de sus padres;
Pokus o sondu do duše dívky, která v r. 1973 v Praze na Letné úmyslně zabila nákladním autem osm lidí. V úterý 10. července 1973 dvaadvacetiletá Olga Hepnarová nasedla do nákladního auta a v Praze na Letné vjela do lidí čekajících na tramvaj. Zůstalo za ní 8 mrtvých a řada raněných. Tím se, podle sv