The President today named Holocaust survivor and businessman Miles Lerman to be Chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and political scientist Ruth Mandel to be the Vice Chair of the Council.
"I was deeply moved when I participated in the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last month," said the President. "Miles Lerman and Ruth Mandel are charged with keeping the flame of memory alive. I have faith in their ability to do so."
NOTE: Biographies of the appointees were made available by the Office of the Press Secretary.
William J. Clinton, Appointment for United States Holocaust Memorial Council Posts Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/219764