High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Olga Benário Prestes (February 12, 1908 1942) was a German-Brazilian communist militant, born in Munich as Olga Gutmann Benário. Her father was a Social-Democrat lawyer of Jewish origin and her mother was a member of Bavarian high-society. In 1923, aged fifteen, she joined the Communist Youth International and in 1928 she organized her lover and comrade Otto Braun's escape from Moabit prison. Together, they travelled to Moscow, where Benário attended ...