Olga's Room

‘The only way not to be a heroine, a martyr, a victim, is to make myself an accomplice, a collaborator.’

Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario’s story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s focusing on Benario’s time in Brazil and Germany, this gripping pl...