- She was a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp, designated Inmate number 7566.
- She was a resistance fighter in World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
- Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust in occupied Poland "Passenger from Cabin 45" became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, subsequently translated into 15 languages. The novel was innovative and unusual in the genre of Holocaust literature, because it depicted a loyal Nazi prison guard, Annelise Franz, who nevertheless exhibited basic human behaviour towards prisoners.
- Her name is pronounced ZOH-fyah POH-smish.
- Her novel Passenger was made into an opera Passazirka by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
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