Anamarija Basch
Anamarija Basch (Baš), also known as Ana-Marija was a Yugoslav activist in the Belgian resistance and a nurse in the Spanish Civil War.
Personal life
[edit]Anamarija was born Ana Marija Révész,[1] on 16 June, 1893[Note 1] in Felsőszentiván[2] near Baja, Hungary[Note 2] to a family of Jewish origins. As a child she moved to Bajmok, Vojvodina. She attended school in Subotica and Budapest, completing her secondary education in a business school in Budapest. She was married to Andrej (Andre) Baš. Together they had a son, Janoš, born in 1916 in Vienna.
She died on 25 July 1979, in Budapest, Hungary.[3]
Political activism, Spanish Civil War and Belgian Resistance
[edit]After her marriage to Andrej (Endre), 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.[4] 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.[5]
After WWII Anamarija lived in Budapest with her son.
Notes
[edit]- ^ There is disagreement as to her exact date of birth, with most sources agreeing it was in 1893. When a day is given, it is given as 16 June.
- ^ Some sources give Újszentiván as the place of birth.
References
[edit]- ^ "BASCH (BAŠ, BACH) Ana Marija, dite Anne-Marie [Née RÉVÉSZ (REVEC) Anna Maria] – Maitron". Le Maitron. Dictionnaire biographique, mouvement ouvrier, mouvement social (in French). Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ Lešnik, Avgust; Vidmar Horvat, Ksenija. "The Spanish Female Volunteers from Yugoslavia as Example of Solidarity in a Transnational Context". International Newsletter of Communist Studies. XX/XXI (2014/15) (27–28): 44. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ "Internationales Ravensbrück Komitee". www.irk-cir.org. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ "Los voluntarios yugoslavos en las Brigadas Internacionales – Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales". Asociacion de Amigos de Brigadas Internacionales (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ Ast, Slobodanka (17 March 1975). "Naše Španjolke 1936-1939; Otišle da se ne vrate (Our Spanish ladies 1936-1939; They left, never to return)". Politika. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
