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Miles Lerman, Polish Holocaust survivor and activist (born 1920)

Historical image related to Miles Lerman, Polish Holocaust survivor and activist (born 1920) from January 22, 2008

Miles Lerman

American activist (1920–2008)

Miles Lerman 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…
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The Holocaust

Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.…
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