Anita Leocádia Prestes

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Anita Prestes
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Anita in 1957
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Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes

(1936-11-27) 27 November 1936 (age 87)
Nationality Brazilian, German
Education University of Brazil (BS)
Moscow Social Sciences Institute (M.Ec, M.Phil)
Fluminense Federal University (Sc.D)
Awards Casa de las Américas Prize (Cuba)
Scientific career
Fields History
Institutions Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Thesis A Coluna Prestes  (1990)
Academic advisorsMaria Yedda Linhares
Anita Leocadia Prestes Bundesarchiv Bild 183-69186-0002, Luis Carlos Prestes, Besuch in Ravensbruck.jpg
Anita Leocádia Prestes

Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes (born 27 November 1936) is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.

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She was born in Barnimstrasse women's prison in Berlin and was handed over to the care of her paternal grandmother, Brazilian Leocádia Prestes, at age 14 months. Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to a former psychiatric hospital in Bernburg in 1942, where she was gassed.

In 1964, Prestes achieved a degree in Chemistry from the then "University of Brazil", now known as the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Two years later she gained a Masters in Organic Chemistry.

Life in the USSR

At the beginning of the 1970s, Prestes moved into exile in the USSR. In August 1972, she was indicted in Brazil for political activities, with the Conselho Permanente de Justiça para o Exército (the Army supreme court) sentencing her in absentia to 4 years and 6 months in prison.

In December 1975 Prestes earned a Doctorate in Political Economics from the Institute of Social Science in Moscow and four years later in September 1979, the Brazilian courts reduced Prestes's sentence by four years as part of a wider amnesty.

Return to Brazil

In 1989 Prestes received a Doctorate in History from the Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, with a thesis named A Coluna Prestes (The Prestes Column), which was the movement commanded by her father of almost 1500 men fighting against the presidency of Artur Bernardes. [1] She is now a retired associate professor of Brazilian History, but she continues teaching on the Master's and Doctorate's Compared History Program at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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References

  1. "Brazil Prestes Column 1924-1927". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2008-08-26.