House of the Ghetto Fighters
The house of the Ghetto Fighters (English: Ghetto Fighters' House , officially Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center , Hebrew: בית לוחמי הגטאות, Beit Lochamei HaGeta'ot ) was founded in 1949 by members of the Kibbutz Lochamej haGeta'ot ( "Ghetto Fighters “ ), A community of Holocaust survivors . Some of them were former underground fighters in partisan units and took part in the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto . This included Yitzhak Zukerman , deputy commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization . The house is named after the poet Jizchak Katzenelson .
The museum is located in kibbutz Lochamej HaGeta'ot, on the coast between Akko and Nahariya in Western Galilee . It was the first museum in Israel to commemorate the Holocaust victims and the Jewish resistance .
The house documents the history of Jewish life before the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews in the 20th century, especially during the Second World War and the Holocaust . The focus is on individual fates and the various resistance movements in the ghettos and concentration camps .
Affiliate institutions operate in France, Austria, the USA and Israel.
Facilities and events
- Exhibitions and guided tours
- Zivia and Yitzhak “Antek” Zukerman Study Center (there is the possibility of one to three day seminars)
- Yad LaYeled Children's Museum, where today's children are told stories about Jewish children during the Holocaust.
- archive
- Library
- Research department on the history of the Jews in the former Soviet Union
- The Center for Humanistic Education (CHE)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Center for humanistic education (in the house of the ghetto fighters). In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. October 2016, accessed June 28, 2017 .
Coordinates: 32 ° 57 '37.9 " N , 35 ° 5' 43" E