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Last update - 02:15 24/01/2008 U.S. Holocaust Museum founder, WWII partisan Miles Lerman dies at 88 By The Associated Press Tags: Partisan, Poland, Holocaust  Miles Lerman, a resistance fighter against the Nazis in Poland and a founder and chairman emeritus of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, has died. He was 88. Lerman's wife, Rosalie, confirmed that he died Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia. Lerman was a member of a prosperous Jewish family in southern Poland, whose flour mills were seized by the Nazis. Lerman escaped from a slave labor camp and fought the Nazis with other partisans for nearly two years in the forests of Poland. Advertisement "Our job was to raise havoc, to raise hell with them and survive," he once told The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lerman and his wife immigrated to New York City in 1947. He eventually started a home heating oil business that grew into a major distributorship, and invested in real estate. Related articles: German archives' opening helps Israeli man track his father's death in Holocaust Holocaust: A children's version Holocaust scholar: 'Jew' has become curse word among German youth More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   The father of the victim Father of terror victim slams Olmert for letting PA try the killers. And you're out German hip-hop artist thrown off reality show over Hitler salute.

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