Olga: The Most Moving Tribute to Wartime Courage since Anne Frank

Sphere, London, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 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 of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4852. . 9780747410010