Olga Benario was a German woman who worked as a Soviet agent in the 1920s and 1930s. She ended up in Brazil as part of a plot to overthrow the president of that country. Eventually, Benario was killed in a concentration camp in the Holocaust. But as Zoe Sullivan reports, her extraordinary story lives on through her daughter in Brazil.
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