Miles Lerman

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.