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TERRE HAUE, Ind.–Just days before Ed Asner died, he was scheduled to play “God” in a production of “God Help Us”, at the Cornerstone Centre for the Arts in Muncie. Before that, the man who brought Lou Grant to life in two TV series let his own beliefs in Holocaust activism inform his narration of “Eva”, the documentary about Eva Kor.

Asner, 91, who died Sunday in Los Angeles, was on the Entertainment Board of Directors for the Survivor Mitzvah Project, an organization dedicated to helping impoverished Holocaust survivors in Europe.

In 2016 he signed on to narrate “Eva”.

The movie told the story of Eva Mozes Kor, who survived imprisonment at Auschwitz, as a child, and who founded the Candles museum in Terre Haute after moving to Indiana.

Kor famously, and infamously in some Jewish communities, forgave the people who performed experiments on her and her sister, including the “Angel of Death” Dr. Josef Mengele.

You may know Asner better as Lou Grant in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, and “Lou Grant”, or from his roles in “Up” and “Elf”.

Asner never stopped acting and with his death Betty White is the final surviving cast member from the “Mary Tyler Moore Sho9w”.