About Miles Lerman
Lived 1920 – 2008 (aged 87–88). Miles Lerman was an entrepreneur.
Miles Lerman (January 6, 1920 – January 22, 2008) was an American activist who helped plan and create both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the memorial at the Bełżec extermination camp. Lerman, a Holocaust survivor himself, had fought as a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II in Nazi German occupied Poland.
Lerman and his family fled to the city of Lwów following the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. However, he managed to escape the camp. He spent the next 23 months as a Jewish resistance fighter hidden in the forests surrounding Lwów.
Death Miles Lerman died at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 22, 2008, at the age of 88. He was buried in Alliance Cemetery in Vineland, New Jersey.
He was survived by his wife, Chris, whose real name is Krysia Rozalia Laks, his daughter, philanthropist Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer; his son David and his brother, Jona.
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Who was Miles Lerman?
POlish resistance fighter
When was Miles Lerman born?
Miles Lerman was born in 1920 in Tomaszów Lubelski.
When did Miles Lerman die?
Miles Lerman died on 22 January 2008.
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Miles Lerman was an entrepreneur.
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