Main information courtesy of a pdf document: Claims Resolution Tribunal, case No. CV96-4849 of 24th. October 2002.

Franz (Frantisek) BASS, born 1900 in Prague. Studied medicine and became a gynaecologist. Deported to Theresienstadt in circa 1941, where he continued services as a doctor. (see below***). Survived! Returned to Prague after the war and died there on 26th. January 1962.

Clearly, during his time as doctor in Theresienstadt, Franz gathered experiences that he related later in various publications:

• **cf: Theresienstadt 1941 - 1945: Das Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft - Hans G. Adler, Jeremy D. Adler - Google Books

http://books.google.de/books?id=XouLLUIgI74C&pg=PR27&lpg=PR27&dq=dr.+franz+bass&source=bl&ots=slS06X3pfM&sig=q7eU1HHSfjVbEN9S5eUf2GU34QE&hl=de&sa=X&ei=0uGkUITFJ8nY4QScmYDQDw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=dr.%20franz%20bass&f=false ref. to Dr. Franz Bass ...

and also: http://www.collegium-carolinum.de/cz/knihovna/bibliografie/juedische-geschichte/buchstabe-b.html [Bass =] Franz Bass und sein Zeugnis über das Leben in den Konzentrationslagern. In: Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente 13 (2006) 340-342. Bass, Franz: L´amour et les camps de concentration. In: Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente 13 (2006) 343-347.

N.B. This research prompted by recent trip to Theresienstadt and subsequent reviewing of doctors whose signatures appear on my great-grandmother, Marianne Wengraf's, death certificate there. (pip)