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This is the story of Olga Benario, German Jew and Communist activist, trained by the Red Guard, who married the charismatic leader of the Brazilian Communist Party and who, after a failed uprising in Rio, was arrested and deported to Nazi Germany as a "gift" to Hitler. Her letters from prison, and her descriptions of her daughter and of the happiness she feels with her, reveal a woman of action and courage, now behind bars, expressing an intense and enduring love for both husband and daughter. Olga's short and dramatic life was an example of unwavering strength and determination in her commitment to the workers' cause and against social injustice, and later against the evil unleashed by the Nazis and their allies. She was murdered in Ravensbruck in 1942.
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0747410011
- ISBN 13 9780747410010
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages261
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Olga
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Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 1991
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Olga: The Most Moving Tribute to Wartime Courage since Anne Frank
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Sphere, London, 1991
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Duodecimo12mo. 261 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. Olga Benario, German and Jewish, was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; 1930s; History. ISBN: 0747410011. ISBN/EAN: 9780747410010. Pictures are of actual item and are not stock images Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4852. Seller Inventory # 4852
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OLGA
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ISBN 13: 9780747410010
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 261pp. Biography of Olga Benario Prestes, German Jewish Communist, sent by Moscow to help Luis Carlos Prestes in Brazil. Captured and sent to Germany she was murdered in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Stain to bottom edge of book. Seller Inventory # 096455
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