Morris (right) and Yitzhak Asner stand in front of a pile of scrap metal.
Overview
- Caption
- Morris (right) and Yitzhak Asner stand in front of a pile of scrap metal.
- Date
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1912
- Locale
- Kansas City, MO United States
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Asner FamilySource Record ID: RN23-12 - Published Source
- There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 257
- Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Biography
- Morris and Yitzhak Asner immigrated from Nacha to America before World War I. Morris remained in America; he is the father of actor Ed Asner. Yitzhak returned to Nacha. He later was murdered by a Polish policeman in the Radun ghetto. His sons Avraham and Yankl served in the Polish army in the 1930s. Avraham survived several attacks by members of the Polish Home Army, including one that left a bullet lodged in his leg. Yankl Asner survived the Holocaust as a partisan with his brothers only to be arrested and tortured after the war. He shot himself. All other members of the family perished.
- Record last modified:
- 2004-11-29 00:00:00
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