Colegio olga benario prestes biography

German Brazilian Communist militant

Olga Benário Prestes (Brazilian Portuguese: /ˈɔwgɐ beˈnaɾju prɛstʃis/, 12 February 1908 – 7 April 1942)^[1] was a German-Brazilian communistmilitant executed by Nazi Germany.

Colegio olga benario prestes biography

Biography

Olga Gutmann Benário was born in Munich to a Jewish family.^[2] Her father, Leo Benário, was a Social Democrat lawyer, and her mother, Eugenie (Gutmann), was a member of Bavarian high-society.

In 1923, aged fifteen, she joined the Communist Youth International and in 1928 helped organize her lover and fellow party member Otto Braun's escape from Moabit prison.^[3] She went to Czechoslovakia and from there, reunited with Braun, to Moscow, where Benário attended the Lenin-School of the Comintern and then worked as an instructor of the Communist Youth International, in the Soviet Union and in France and Great Britain, where she participated in coordinating anti-fascist activities.

She parted from Otto B