Olga Revolutionary and Martyr Author:Fernando Morais "After tonight, I want simply to live for whatever brief future I have left. You are the one who taught me, dearest one, what strength of will means, especially when it springs from sources like ours. I have struggled for the just and the good, for the betterment of the world. I promise you now, as I say farewell, that until the last instant... more » I will give you no reason to be ashamed of me. Please understand: preparing for death doesn't mean giving up but knowing how to confront it when it arrives. So many things could still happen in the meantime...I will remain firm and determined to live until the last moment. Now I must go to sleep, so tomorrow I can be strong. I kiss you both for the last time.: -- a letter written by Olga Benario, age thirty-three, to her lover and their daughter on the day before she was sent from Ravensbruck to the gas chamber at Bernburg, February 1942« less