Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who moved to Europe in the late 1940s rather than be subject to the congressional investigations and professional ostracism that overtook her industry for a decade, died on Dec. 17 r her home in Beverly Hills, CA. She was 103 and widely considered to be one of the last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist.

Mrs. Barzman and her husband and fellow screenwriter, Ben Barzman, were among the hundreds of film industry figures — including screenwriters, actors, directors, stagehands and technicians — who found themselves iced out of Hollywood after WWII because of their unwillingness to discuss their affiliation and those they knew who were affiliated with the Communist Party, an association common among the Hollywood left. However, attitudes changed, and those sympathetic to the cause were caught up in the government crackdown.

After returning to Los Angeles, Mrs. Barzman wrote a column on aging for The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and also a memoir, The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate.