Miles Lerman

Miles Lerman (1920 – January 22, 2008) was a Polish-born American who helped to plan and create the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.. Lerman, a Holocaust survivor himself, had fought as a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II in Nazi occupied Poland.

Read more about Miles Lerman:  Early Life, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Death

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