Holocaust survivor William Basch dies
LOS ANGELES - William Basch, a concentration-camp survivor and Los Angeles garment executive who was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary on the Holocaust, has died.
LOS ANGELES - William Basch, a concentration-camp survivor and Los Angeles garment executive who was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary on the Holocaust, has died.
He was 82.
His grandson, Max Basch, says William Basch died Monday in Marina del Rey.
William Basch was in Hungary during World War II and worked with Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to save Jews from the Nazis. He used the sewers to deliver falsified diplomatic documents.
Basch, who was in two concentration camps, was one of several survivors featured in the 1998 documentary "The Last Days."
He arrived penniless in the United States in 1947.
He later founded a women's apparel manufacturing company, Basch Fashions.