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The Ghetto Fighters' House museum store offers over 300 publications on the Holocaust. Order now!
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| | | | | | | | | The Ghetto Fighters' House hosted a seminar entitled "The Young Leading the Way – Then and Now", in the presence of diplomats, historians, members of the Dror Youth Movement and the general public. The seminar explored the concept of resistance and protest both during the Holocaust and in Israel after the war.
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| | | | | The Ghetto Fighters' House Archives continue to collect archival material: artifacts, photographs and documents (letters, diaries, memoires, personal certificates, etc.) from the pre-Holocaust period (Jewish life and culture, Zionist youth movements, etc.), the Holocaust period and from the first years after the Holocaust ("Sh'erit ha-Pletah" - Jewish displaced persons).
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| | | | | Beit Lohamei Haghetaot invites you to join us to commemorate the International Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, 27 January 2012, 9:30 AM to 1 PM, in the Museum Auditorium | | |
| | | | | Leslie Marko, Director of Theatre Education at the Laboratory for the Study of Ethnicity, Racism and Discrimination (LEER and virtual archive ARQSHOAH) of the University of Sáo Paulo in Brazil, recently visited the Ghetto Fighters' House in order to learn about the drama and theatre program at the Yad Layeled Children's Museum. | | |
| | | | | This year the annual conference of the Israel Friends of the Ghetto Fighters' House took place on Friday, December 23rd, the third candle of Hanuka. The conference included a report of the museum's activites and future plans, as well as a lecture by Dr. Moshe Shner, a tour of the Kupferman House, as well as exhibtions throughout the museum. | | |
| | | | | A delegation of Jewish educators took part in an annual seminar in early December. The 30 participants, who came from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania and Latvia, are educators in both formal and informal education.
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| | | | | Educators from Germany recently visited the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum and met with Holocaust survivor Nili Goren, who told them about the special letters sent to her by her father while in hiding. | | |
| | | | | Recently, the Institute for Holocaust Education hosted a trip to Israel for board members, educators, and friends of the IHE. The focus of the trip was to understand Israeli society in a post-Holocaust world. | | |
| | | | | On November 6th, 2011, the Ghetto Fighters’ House held a study day in memory of Bronka Winicka – Klibanski, who was a courier in the in the Bialystok ghetto during the war. Many of those who personally were acquainted with and whose lives she touched were present at the one-day seminar.
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| | | | | In recognition of 72 years since the annihilation of the Tomaszow Lubelski Jewish community, a commemoration ceremony was held at the Ghetto Fighters’ House this past month. Among the speakers were Prof. Yitzhak Zamir, former Supreme Court justice and legal advisor for the government. | | |
| | | | | The Ghetto Fighters’ House has a variety of programs in honor of “Senior Citizen’s Month” that will be taking place throughout the month of November. | | |
| | | | | On October 26th, 2011, 450 11th grade students from the Ben Zvi High School in Kiryat Ono visited the Ghetto Fighters' House as part of the school's diverse activities on the Holocaust, Resistance and Heroism a legacy at the school, led by principal Tsippi Rosenboim.
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| | | | | On Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 the Ghetto Fighters’ House hosted 350 young Yeshiva students from the youth movement “Pirchei Hadegel”. The purpose of the visit was to expose the young men to the subject of the Holocaust through museum exhibitions and survivor testimonies. | | |
| | | | | During the Intermediate Days of Sukkot, “The Pit”, a production of the Ghetto Fighters’ House, was performed as part of the Israeli Fringe Theatre Festival in Akko for hundreds of moved viewers.
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| | | | | The Ghetto Fighters’ House and the Senior Citizen Foundation in the Mateh Asher Region invite you to a learning experience that touches on the various subjects with which the museum deals. The program takes place once a month and includes a lecture and a guided tour in one of the museum’s exhibitions.
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| | | | | From the archives of the Ghetto Fighters' House: Yizkor Book presented to Yitzhak Zuckerman in the 1960s leads to a reconnection with the Jewish Community of Toronto. | | |
| | | | | In September 1944, in the special section of the Bergen - Belsen camp, were 1684 Jews who had left Hungary on June 30 on a transport known as the Kasztner train, according to an agreement with the SS that these Jews would be sent from Hungary to Switzerland.
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| | | | | On September 1, 2011, a special exhibit of artworks by the late Avigdor Arikha (1929–2010) opened in the main entrance hall of the Ghetto Fighters' House museum. The exhibit comprises two components of the artist's works that complement each other and until now have never been displayed together. Together they tell the story of how Arikha (then Dlugach) was rescued from certain death in the years of the extermination of European Jewry, and his belated thanks to those through whose efforts his life was saved | | |
| | | | | On June 30th, in the center of Warsaw directly across from the main gate of the university, an outdoor exhibit Our Israelis: The Fate of Polish Jews in Israel opened. Eminent Israeli figures that were born in Poland are on exhibit, such as David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Israel Lowe, Shai Agmon, Aaron Ciechanover, and Chava Alberstein. Alongside each poster the life story of each figure is written both in Polish and English. | | |
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