President Bush named seven new members to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the country’s Holocaust museum. The five-year appointments went to Debra Lerner Cohen of Washington; Sam Devinski, the son of Holocaust survivors from Kansas City, Mo.; Donald Etra, a former vice chair of the United Jewish Fund of Los Angeles; David Flaum of Rochester, N.Y.; Eric Ross, who fled Nazi Germany in 1938, of South Orange, N.J.; Richard Sambol, vice president of the Ocean County Jewish Federation, from Middletown, N.J.; and Merryl Tisch, chairman of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, from New York.
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