Olga / Fernando Morais ; translated by Ellen Watson.
- Title
- Olga / Fernando Morais ; translated by Ellen Watson.
- Published by
- London : Peter Halban, [1990]
- ©1990
- Author
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- 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
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Translation of: Olga.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242).
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain