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William Basch | Holocaust survivor, 82

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William Basch, 82, a concentration-camp survivor and Los Angeles garment executive who was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary on the Holocaust, died Monday in Marina del Ray, Calif.

Mr. 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. He eventually was placed in two concentration camps and 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. - AP

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