Olga Benrio (1908–1942) - unknown anti-fascist resistance heroine (in Russia). Olga was born in Munich to a Jewish family. At the age of 15 she joined the Communist Youth League, and in 1928 she organized the daring release of her friend Otto Braun from a Berlin prison. Afterwards, they both fled to the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Olga underwent political and military training, worked in the buildings of the Comintern and carried out missions abroad. In 1934, she was assigned to accompany Luis Carlos Prestas, the legendary revolutionary who was nicknamed the "Horseman of Hope", to Brazil. Prestes (1898-1990) became famous back in the 1920s, when a mutiny in his train regiment and his column of rebels traveled about 25 thousand kilometers across Brazil, and waged a guerrilla war with government troops. He later became a communist and came to the Soviet Union. Olga was supposed to look after Prests. For the sake of the conspiracy, they depicted a wealthy Portuguese couple traveling around the world. But the fictitious marriage turned into true love.

Olga Benrio (1908–1942) - unknown anti-fascist resistance heroine (in Russia). Olga was born in Munich to a Jewish family. At the age of 15 she joined the Communist Youth League, and in 1928 she organized the daring release of her friend Otto Braun from a Berlin prison. Afterwards, they both fled to the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Olga underwent political and military training, worked in the buildings of the Comintern and carried out missions abroad. In 1934, she was assigned to accompany Luis Carlos Prestas, the legendary revolutionary who was nicknamed the "Horseman of Hope", to Brazil. Prestes (1898-1990) became famous back in the 1920s, when a mutiny in his train regiment and his column of rebels traveled about 25 thousand kilometers across Brazil, and waged a guerrilla war with government troops. He later became a communist and came to the Soviet Union. Olga was supposed to look after Prests. For the sake of the conspiracy, they depicted a wealthy Portuguese couple traveling around the world. But the fictitious marriage turned into true love.

In 1935, Prestas participated in the organization of an armed uprising against the government of Getulio Vargas. The rebellion failed. The repressions began. In March 1936, Olga and Prests were arrested. About was released later in the 1970s. Headed the Brazilian Communist Party. Olga had it much worse. She was a Jew, a communist and a staunch opponent of Hitler. Olga was pregnant. Despite this, the Brazilian authorities decided to hand her over to Nazi Germany! The Brazilian Supreme Court refused to protect the woman. In September 1936, Olga was sent to Germany. In a Berlin prison she gave birth to a daughter, Anita. After a little over a year, the boy was handed over to his grandmother, Prests' mother. Olga herself first arrived at the Lichtenburg concentration camp, and then at Ravensbrück. On April 23, 1942, she was killed in a gas chamber in Berenburg. She was 34 years old. By the way, the Vargas regime attacked not only the communists. In the years 1936-1937.