Morris (right) and Yitzhak Asner stand in front of a pile of scrap metal.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39573

Date: 1912
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families A
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

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.
Keyword: AMERICANS
BUSINESSES
BUSINESSES (JEWISH)
FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH)
GRUBAS, MORDECHAI
HAAS, FRITZ
JEWS (AMERICAN)
JEWS (POLISH)
TOWER OF FACES
WODEHOUSE, P.G
Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer
Photo Source: The Shtetl Foundation

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Asner Family

Source 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
: Record last modified: 2004-11-29 00:00:00
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