Anamarija Basch
Anamarija Basch, also known as Ana-Marija, was a Yugoslav activist in the Belgian resistance and a nurse in the Spanish Civil War.
Personal life
Anamarija was born Ana Marija Révész, on 16 June 1893 in Felsőszentiván near Baja, Hungary to a family of Jewish origins. As a child she moved to Bajmok, Vojvodina. She attended school in Subotica and Budapest, Hungary, completing her secondary education at a business school in Budapest. She was married to Andrej Baš. Together they had a son, Janoš, born in 1916, in Vienna.She died on 25 July 1979, in Budapest.
Political activism, Spanish Civil War and Belgian Resistance
After her marriage to Andrej, she moved to Subotica where she participated in the labor movement. Both Anamarija and Andrej were members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia since 1929. They lived in Belgium from 1930, where Anamarija worked as a nurse and was an activist in the Belgian labor movement.During the Spanish Civil War she worked as a nurse at the field hospital of the 15th Army Corps. She was one of sixteen women volunteers from Yugoslavia. After the defeat of the Spanish Republic, the family returned to Belgium, where both Anamarija and Andrej participated in the Belgian Resistance. Andrej was arrested and died in a concentration camp.
After World War II Anamarija lived in Budapest with her son.