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Oral history interview with Abraham Asner

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0005

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    Oral history interview with Abraham Asner

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Abraham Asner, born in Nacha, Belarus in 1916, describes the beginning of the war; fleeing with his brothers to Alovė, Lithuania; going to Varėna, Lithuania; going to Eišiškės, Lithuania, where there was a Judenrat (Jewish council); returning to Nacha; being sent with his brothers to the Radun ghetto as part of a labor force; surviving the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942 with his brothers; being in Stayes in 1943; joining a partisan organization based in the nearby forest, Natsher Pustshe; their partisan activities and missions, including sabotaging railroad tracks; meeting his wife during a mission to Mijantsi; going to the Naliboki Forest; going close to a place on the Neman River and hear about the Bielski group; the death of his youngest brother; being liberated in 1945; living in Poland then in Berlin, Germany after the war; and immigrating to Canada with his wife.
    Interviewee
    Abraham Asner
    Interviewer
    Sheri Weisberg
    Date
    interview:  1982 October 10

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes : analog.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Asner, Abraham, 1916-

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Abraham Asner on October 10, 1982. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:22:50
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