Ghetto Fighters' House

The Ghetto Fighters' House (Hebrew: בית לוחמי הגטאות, Beit Lohamei Ha-Getaot), (Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Documentation and Study Center) is a Holocaust museum founded in 1949 by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot.

Ghetto Fighters' House
The Yad LaYeled Children's Museum

History

The Ghetto Fighters' House was founded in 1949. Among the founders were Holocaust survivors who fought in the ghetto undergrounds and partisan units. The museum is named for Itzhak Katzenelson, a Jewish poet who was murdered at Auschwitz.It is located in the Western Galilee, Israel, on the Coastal Highway between Acre (Akko) and Nahariya.

The Ghetto Fighters' House was the world's first museum commemorating the Holocaust and Jewish heroism,[1] with a focus on Jewish resistance in the ghettos and concentration camps. Friends of GFH associations are active in Israel, France, Austria, and the United States.

Departments and activities
  • Museum exhibitions
  • Guided tours (for groups in Hebrew and other languages)
  • Zivia and Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman Study Center (facility for one-, two-, and three-day seminars)
  • Yad LaYeled Children's Museum and memorial, telling the story of children during the Holocaust
  • International Book-Sharing Project, using children's books about the Holocaust to foster dialogue and understanding
  • Center for Humanistic Education
  • Archives (documents, photographs, artifacts, art collection, recordings)
  • Library and Reference Room (resources and assistance for researchers, educators and students)
  • Department of Research on the Holocaust of Soviet Jewry
  • Publications Department

See also

References
  1. Yehoyakim Cochavi, "Museums and Memorial Institutes: Bet Lohamei ha-Getta'ot" in Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem (1990), vol. 3, p.1012
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