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PHOTO GALLERY
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THE EARLY YEARS
Pictured from left to right are Shmuel (Miles) and Yona Lerman playing a game of chess in their home in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland, 1935. — USHMM
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 Group portrait of members of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement. Among those pictured is Shmuel (Miles) Lerman (first row, second from left). Lvov, Poland, 1937. — USHMM
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 Wedding portrait of Shmuel (Miles) Lerman and Rozalia (Chris) Laks in Lodz, Poland, February 25, 1946. — USHMM
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 Shmuel (Miles) and Rozalia (Chris) Lerman walk along a street in Berlin while living in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp. Berlin, Germany, March 1946. — USHMM
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 Shmuel (Miles) and Rozalia (Chris) Lerman aboard the SS <i>Marine Perch</i>, traveling to the U.S. in January 1947. — USHMM
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 Portrait of Shmuel (Miles) Lerman on the deck of the SS <i>Marine Perch</i> upon its arrival in New York harbor. February 11, 1947. — USHMM
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BUILDING THE MUSEUM
The first Days of Remembrance ceremony, held in the East Room at the White House. Participants included President Ronald Reagan, Miles Lerman (seated, center), Hadassah Rosensaft, Benjamin Meed, and Elie Wiesel. Washington, D.C., April 18, 1981. — USHMM
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 Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council pose with two milkcans containing a Scroll of Remembrance signed by Holocaust survivors at the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Pictured from left to right are: Miles Lerman, Benjamin Meed, Samuel E. Bloch, and David Chase. Washington, D.C., April 1984. — Alan Gilbert
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 Miles Lerman (left) standing next to Elie Wiesel at the official groundbreaking ceremony held on the site of the future Museum building. October 16, 1985. — USHMM
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 Miles Lerman, representing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, signs an agreement with the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland at the site of Belzec. Photograph taken in Warsaw, Poland, 1987. — USHMM/courtesy of Gustaw Russ
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 Miles Lerman (left) with Founding Director Jeshajahu Weinberg, Michael Berenbaum, and Jacek Nowakowski during an artifact transfer meeting. November 2, 1991. — USHMM/Arnold Kramer
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 Miles Lerman (left) standing before the grand staircase in the unfinished Hall of Witness during construction of the USHMM. Washington, D.C., 1991. — USHMM
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 Miles Lerman (front row, left) and members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council attend the Special Ecumenical Service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. held on April 18, 1993, to commemorate the opening of the Museum. — USHMM
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FROM CHAIRMAN TO CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
Chairman Miles Lerman, Director Sara Bloomfield, D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey, unidentified, and Abe Pollin pose for a photograph during ‘Law Enforcement & Society: Lessons of the Holocaust’ — USHMM/courtesy of Marshall Cohen
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 Miles Lerman and Sara Bloomfield during a USHMM Memorial Council swearing-in ceremony in the Museum’s Hall of Remembrance. May 31, 2000. — Carl Cox Photography
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 Days of Remembrance 2003. From left to right: Elie Wiesel, Ruth Mandel, Benjamin Meed, and Miles Lerman. — Carl Cox Photography
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 Miles Lerman and his wife Chris. — USHMM, courtesy of Carl Cox Photography
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 Days of Remembrance 2006. From left to right: Vice Chairman Joel Geiderman, former Chairman Miles Lerman and his wife Chris, and Chairman Fred Zeidman. — Carl Cox Photography
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