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Title

Olga / Fernando Morais ; translated by Ellen Watson.

Author

Morais, Fernando

Publication

• London : Peter Halban, [1990]
• ©1990

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Additional Authors

• Watson, Ellen, 1950-
• Dr. Joseph R. Stanton Human Life Issues Library and Resource Center former owner. sch
• Value of Life Committee former owner. sch

Description

245 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

A biography of the German Jewish communist activist Olga Benário Prestes. Together with her husband, Brazilian communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes, she planned a communist revolution in Brazil. They were arrested in Brazil, and Olga was deported to Germany, into the hands of the Gestapo. Pp. 175-228 relate her experiences in prison (where she gave birth to a daughter) and in concentration camps, where she was treated severely as both a communist and a Jew. She died in a transport from Ravensbrück to Bernburg, a killing center.

Uniform Title

Olga. English

Alternative Title

Olga.

Subject

• Benario-Prestes, Olga, 1908-1942
• Prestes, Luís Carlos, 1898-1990
• 1939-1945
• Women political activists > Biography
• Communists > Brazil > Biography
• Communists > Germany > Biography
• Women political prisoners > Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
• Femmes activistes > Biographies
• Prisonnières politiques > Allemagne
• Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands
• Women political prisoners
• Women political activists
• Communists
• Communism > Brazil > History > 20th century
• Germany
• Brazil
• Brazil Revolutionary movements Prestes, Olga Benario

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Translation of: Olga.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1870015320
• 9781870015325

OCLC

• 20934444
• SCSB-11346834

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library