Anna Aschenbach

Overview

Anna Aschenbach born Nanking, China October 27, 1922 (d. 2011). Tax resister; WILPF awardee; organizer; civil rights activist.

Quotations

From her poem protesting the use of napalm in Vietnam: "Children First. The flaming girl keeps running to my eyes. No tears of mine can slake her searing back." (photo New Haven Independent, Jan. 20, 2011)