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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. 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 occupied Poland.〔 ==Early life== Lerman was born as Szmuel Milek Lerman in Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland, in 1920.〔 His parents were Israel and Yochevet Feldzon Lerman and he was one of five children.〔 His mother, Yochevet, owned an import and export grocery business.〔 His father, Israel, owned several businesses throughout eastern Poland, including several flour mills in Eastern Poland and wholesale liquor and gasoline businesses.〔〔("Members of the administrative staff of the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp pose in the office of UNRRA camp director Schwartzberg" ), photoarchives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; includes a text based on an interview with Miles Lehman on July 17, 2001〕 Lerman and his family fled to the city of Lwów following the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939.〔 In 1941 Lerman was captured and sent to the Vinniki forced labor camp.〔〔 〕 However, he managed to escape the camp. He spent the next 23 months as a Jewish resistance fighter hidden in the forests surrounding Lwów.〔 He went to the Polish city of Łódź following the end of the war.〔 There he met his wife, Krysia Rozalia Laks, whom he married in a Displaced Persons camp.〔 The couple emigrated together to the United States in 1947.〔 Lerman arrived in New York City in 1947 before moving to Vineland, New Jersey, in 1948.〔 Lerman purchased a poultry farm in Vineland.〔 He also started a series of successful real estate, gasoline and heating businesses.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miles Lerman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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