GFH News

Every year the Ghetto Fighters' House holds the traditional Holocaust and Heroism Day National Gathering. This year, the closing ceremony, with 10,000 attendees, marked the 70th anniversary of the ghetto uprisings. As part of the memorial ceremony, Holocaust survivors and their families lit the six torches and a wreath was placed in honor of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Raya Kalisman, Founder Director of the Center for Humanistic Education at the Ghetto Fighters' Museum, writes about her visit to Warsaw along with Chavka Folman-Raban and Dr. Anat Livne, director of the Ghetto Fighters’ House. They were invited by the Municipality of Warsaw to participate in the program of events held to mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

On April 10th and 11th the Ghetto Fighters' House will host for the second year the "Between Yom Hashoah and Yom Hatzma'ut" Discussion series. This year, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, the discussion series will revolve around the moral values that set in motion the Uprising and were in the conscious minds of the soldiers who faught in Israel's wars.