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- Birth nameOlga Gutmann Benario
- Olga Benario was born on February 12, 1908 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She was married to Luiz Carlos Prestes. She died on April 23, 1942 in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
- SpouseLuiz Carlos Prestes(1934 - April 23, 1942) (her death, 1 child)
- Daughter of Leocádia Prestes and lawyer Leo Benario.
- Mother of Anita Leocádia Prestes (b. November 27th 1936 in Berlin).
- 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. 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.
- After her stay in Britain, where she was briefly arrested, Olga attended a course in the Zhukovsky Military Academy, leading some historians to view her as an agent of Soviet military intelligence.
- In 2006, the opera Olga, by Jorge Antunes, premiered on October 14 at the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo, Brazil.
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