Lochamej haGeta'ot
| Lochamej haGeta'ot | |||
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| hebrew : | לוחמי הגטאות | ||
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| District : | North | ||
| Founded : | 1949 | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 58 ' N , 35 ° 6' E | ||
| Height : | 17 m | ||
| Residents : | 685 (as of: 2018) | ||
| Community code : | 0595 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 25220 | ||
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Lochamej haGeta'ot ( Hebrew לוֹחֲמֵי הַגֵּטָאוֹת Lōchamej ha-Geta'ōt , German 'fighter of the ghettos' ) is a kibbutz on the road from Akko to Naharija in northern Israel with 685 inhabitants (as of 2018).
The settlement was founded in 1949 by survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising , including Jitzhak Zuckerman , deputy commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization . The place name means "Ghetto Fighters" and recalls the Jews , during the Holocaust in from the Nazis established ghettos were killed. Lochamej haGeta'ot had 685 inhabitants in 2018.
The museum
In 1949, a museum was founded in the kibbutz House of Ghetto Fighters , which deals with Jewish life in Eastern Europe before, during and after the Holocaust. The exhibition focuses on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and a model of the Treblinka extermination camp . Another building houses a memorial that commemorates the children who perished as a result of the National Socialist extermination policy.
The Aqueduct of Al Jazzar
On the edge of the kibbutz are the well-preserved remains of an aqueduct built by Cezzâr Ahmed Pasha in 1780 to supply Akko with water.
people
- Zivia Lubetkin (1914–1978), Polish resistance fighter and social worker
- Jitzhak Zuckerman (1915–1981), Polish resistance fighter
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .