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Members of the Asner family stand around the body of Reb Arieh-Leib in the village of Nacha.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39577
Members of the Asner family stand around the body of Reb Arieh-Leib in the village of Nacha. Among those pictured are Bende Reuvke Asner (right) and Reuvke Asner (second from the right). The face of the deceased has been left uncovered in accordance with a local non-Jewish village custom.

Members of the Asner family stand around the body of Reb Arieh-Leib in the village of Nacha.

Among those pictured are Bende Reuvke Asner (right) and Reuvke Asner (second from the right). The face of the deceased has been left uncovered in accordance with a local non-Jewish village custom.

Date
Before 1941
Locale
Nacha, USSR
Variant Locale
Belarus
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families A
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

About This Photograph

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.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Arnold Kramer

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
The Shtetl Foundation
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Provenance: Asner Family
Source Record ID: RN23-20
Published Source
There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p.249
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2004-02-12 00:00:00
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