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Olga Benario Prestes

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The Resume

    (February 12, 1908-April 1942)
    Gassed at Ravensbruck concentration camp
    Subject of the 2004 Brazilian film 'Olga'

Why she might be annoying:

    She grew up a wealthy member of German high society.
    She joined the Communist Party at 15.
    The KGB trained her to be an explosives expert.
    She allegedly strangled a young girl who betrayed the Communist Party.
    In 1935, she was ordered to help Brazilian Communist leader Carlos Prestes return to his native country, posing as his wife. She ended up actually married to him weeks later.

Why she might not be annoying:

    In September 1936, the Brazilian government handed over a very pregnant Olga to the Gestapo, who swiftly imprisoned her.
    She gave birth to a daughter while in custody (November 27, 1936).
    She was murdered for being Jewish and a political prisoner.
    The day before her death, she penned a note to her daughter saying, 'I promise you now, as I say farewell, that until the last instant I will give you no reason to be ashamed of me.'
    A street in Berlin bears her name.

Credit: Black Chic


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 134 Votes: 65.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 80.95% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 33 Votes: 69.70% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 44 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 38 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 49 Votes: 59.18% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 65 Votes: 55.38% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 181 Votes: 45.30% Annoying