George Harry Asher Collection 1907-1996
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Graf, Oskar Maria, 1894-1967
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Asher, Esther Lea, 1907-1992
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Asher, George Harry, 1907-1998
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George Harry Asher (Georg Harry Ascher) was born on November 18, 1907 in Vienna. After studying advertisement and graphic design in Prague, he stayed in Czechoslovakia working in advertising and as a commercial traveler. When the Germans marched into Prague, he found asylum in the French Embassy and, after having been arrested and released by the Gestapo, he fled to France, where he was interred in several French camps. The writer Oskar Maria Graf put Ascher's name on a list of a visa program fo...