Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to an experimental extermination camp set up at an old psychiatric hospital in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in 1942, where she was gassed.
In 2004, a popular Brazilian film based on Benário's life, Olga, directed by telenovela director Jayme Monjardim, which offered a thoroughly depoliticized account of Olga's life, centered on her love affair with Prestes, was released, to the disappointment of German critics, who called it "kitsch advertising".
Olga Chernysheva | Olga Neuwirth | Olga Petrova | Olga Fatkulina | Olga Nethersole | Princess Olga, Duchess of Apulia | Olga Kern | Olga Guillot | Olga Masters | Olga Korbut | Olga Danilova | Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff | Olga Tañón | Olga Shishkina | Olga Rypakova | Olga Ovtchinnikova | Olga Mostepanova | Olga Madar | Olga Govortsova | Olga Costa | Olga Chorens | Olga Benário Prestes | Olga Bancic | Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya | Olga Yegorova | Olga Viscal Garriga | Olga Sokolova (swimmer) | Olga Slyusareva | Olga Sinclair | Olga Segura |