United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Eva Josefsson b. Bas̀z life review
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Eva Josefsson Baśz, a Jehovah's Witness, survived internment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
Contains Eva Bas̀z Josefsson's memoir describing her conversion from Judaism and baptism as a Jehovah's Witness in 1941; her arrest while distributing religious material and deportation from Ujpest (Hungary) to Auschwitz concentration camp; her transfer to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944; the punishment she suffered when she refused to do bomb clearance work because she felt it would violate her religious principle of neutrality; and her emigration to Sweden after the war. A black and white photograph of her taken in 1945 is included.