Passport photograph of Genia Asz.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 23268

Date: Circa 1940
Variant Locale: Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- WARSAW (Poland) -- Daily Life/Street Scenes -- Identification Card Portraits
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eugenia Tabaczynska Shrut

Biography: Marek Asz was was the son of Itta Gella and Jakub Asz, and the nephew of Sholem Asch. He was born in Warsaw in 1914. Marek had two sisters, Genia and Roma, and a brother, Adam. At the outbreak of World War II, Marek's father was in London. Marek, Roma, Adam and Ittla slipped out of Poland in an ambulance in February 1940, after having bribed a German official. Another bribe yielded transit visas for the family from the Greek consulate in Warsaw. From Greece, the Asz' made their way to Italy. Itta then proceeded on to her husband in London, while the others travelled to Lisbon via Tangiers. In June 1941 they sailed to America, where their parents joined them at the end of the war. However, Genia (who was already married) was not able to leave Poland with her mother and siblings, because her husband did not have a passport. The couple perished in the Warsaw ghetto. Marek Asz married Gina Tabaczynska in 1948. Gina's second marriage was to Marek's former brother-in-law, Jerzy Szrut (Shrut).
Keyword: ARTIFACTS
CLOSE-UPS
GHETTO/OCCUPATION
JEWS (POLISH)
PASSPORTS
WARSAW
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Eugenia Tabaczynska Shrut

Source Record ID: Collections: 1999.312.1
: Record last modified: 2015-04-21 00:00:00
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