Yara Yavelberg

Iara Iavelberg (São Paulo, May 7, 1944 – Salvador, August 20, 1971) was a Marxist activist and a member of the armed resistance against Brazilian military dictatorship.

She became the partner of former army captain Carlos Lamarca, one of the key leaders of the armed opposition to Brazil's military government, until her death during a security forces raid in Salvador, Bahia, in August 1971.

She had a relationship with Carlos Lamarca, a Brazilian Army officer who deserted and became one of the most important leaders of the guerrilla movement that opposed the dictatorship.

According to a report, during Operation Pajussara (which involved the participation of more than 200 police officers and aimed to capture Lamarca), Iara allegedly shot herself in an apartment in Pitituba (Bahia) on August 19, 1971.

More than thirty years later, her remains were finally relocated from the suicide section to a burial site near her parents' grave in another area of the Jewish cemetery.