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Death of Asher Shapiro

By the record on this page, he died in the Holocaust, at Pruzhany in 1941.

The Pruzhany memorial book (Pinkes fun finf fartilikte kehiles: Pruzshene, Bereze, Maltsh, Shershev, Selts (1958)) says:

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אַלע אַכצן אַרעסטירטע יידן זענען דערשאָסן געוואָרן ... יששכר שאַפּיראָ און זיין ברודער אָשר

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All eighteen arrested Jews were shot ... Yissachar Shapiro and his brother Asher

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