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Created page with "Rabbi Asher Sassunkin (Sasanka), also known as "Asher Batumer", (1908 - 5 Cheshvan 5748) was a Chabad chossid who was arrested and exiled by Soviet authorities for spreading Yiddishkeit. After his release from Russia, when he moved to live in the United States in his later years, he served as the shamash in the synagogue at 770. Rabbi Asher Sassunkin was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine in 1908 to his father, the chossid Rabbi Nachum Shmarya Sassunkin and his mother Mrs...."